The idea of reuse has been often discussed but never fully realized within the M&S community. How does the BOM make reuse a reality?
Those involved in the BOM standard development effort have worked hard to overcome many of the common barriers to reuse. These activities, which focus on breaking through these barriers, include: • Focusing on the design level instead of the implementation level • Finding ways to promote automation to expedite the discovery and evaluation of BOMs • Filling BOMs with appropriate metadata because documentation is often inadequate • Finalizing a specification for creating and using BOMs that can be considered for standardization so that we minimize errors and subtle differences in the interfaces While these goals have been realized, ultimately reuse becomes reality once the experiences and successes are shared by those organizations that apply, build and use BOMs and supporting BOM component implementations (BCIs). This will result in a validated BOM specification with the necessary guidance to build simulations and simulations spaces with ease and regularity.
