This course provides a comprehensive look on distributed simulation (DS) by illustrating the overall lifecycle of the simulation development process. It covers the High Level Architecture (HLA), which is a de facto and a de jure standard for DS, has been around for over 20 years. DS applications can be regarded as software-intensive systems. Therefore, a lab session supplements the theoretical overview with practical case studies and fosters the required skills for DS implementation to gain a hands-on practice. The course elaborates the implementation of an HLA federation covering all areas of HLA implementation from the object model development to federate development of all HLA Federate Interface Services. One of the major aims of the course is to assure that each student will be able to implement a running distributed simulation at the end of the course.

At the end of this course, students will be able to:

• know basic distributed simulation concepts (PI-c1),
• learn to design the simulation activities and environments (PI-c1),
• have information about HLA (PI-c1),
• apply structured and object-oriented design on simulation projects (PI-1),
• apply model-driven engineering principles to DS (PI-k6),
• know the basic concepts of verification of validation (PI-c1).