SimCES platform for modular simulation: Featuring platform independence, container ecosystem, and development toolkit

Petri Kannisto; Ville Heikkilä; Otto Hylli; Mehdi Attar; Sami Repo; Kari Systä

doi:10.1016/j.softx.2022.101189

SimCES platform for modular simulation: Featuring platform independence, container ecosystem, and development toolkit

Petri Kannisto, Ville Heikkilä, Otto Hylli, Mehdi Attar, Sami Repo, Kari Systä

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Modular co-simulation contributes to both engineering and research, but the earlier solutions have lacked the combination of platform independence, loose coupling between the modules, and tools for straightforward development. This paper describes the simulation platform SimCES (Simulation Environment of Complex Energy System) that solves these issues with a microservice architecture, combining message-broker-based communication, containerization, and a development toolkit. The components can even communicate over Internet. Furthermore, there are developer tools that enable an easy start for developers with Python and Docker, but any external platform is possible too. SimCES is domain agnostic but stems from the energy domain.

Original language	English
Article number	101189
Journal	SoftwareX
Volume	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2022.101189
Publication status	Published - Jul 2022
Publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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Co-simulation
Docker
Message broker
Microservices

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Software and Communications Platform for Simulation Environment of Complex Energy System (SimCES)
Kannisto, P., Hylli, O., Heikkilä, V., Supponen, A., Aaltonen, T., Repo, S., Systä, K., Keski-Koukkari, A., Safdarian, A. & Kulmala, A., 28 Jun 2021, 2021 IEEE Madrid PowerTech, PowerTech 2021 - Conference Proceedings. IEEE, 6 p. (2021 IEEE Madrid PowerTech, PowerTech 2021 - Conference Proceedings).
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SimCES platform for modular simulation: Featuring platform independence, container ecosystem, and development toolkit

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