List of acronyms

Acronym	Domain	Meaning
ACE	ICT	Adaptive Communication Environment
AFAP		As Fast As Possible
ALM	ICT	Application-Layer Multicast
ALMI	ICT	Application-Layer Multicast Infrastructure
ALSP	ICT	Aggregate Level Simulation Protocol
API	ICT	Application Programming Interface
BTP	ICT	Banana Tree Protocol
CBR	ICT	Constant Bit-Rate
CC	ICT	Communication Controller
CE	ICT	Communication Element
CI	CIP Security	Critical Infrastructure
CIP	CIP Security	Critical Infrastructure Protection
CIWIN	EU	Critical Infrastructure Warning and Information Network
CL	ICT	Communication Layer
COTS		Commercial off-the-shelf
CPN	ICT	Cognitive Packet Network
CRM		Customer Relationship Management
DDoS	ICT	Distributed Denial of Service
DES	ICT	Discrete Event Simulation
DFS	ICT	Depth-First Search
DIESIS	EU	Design of an Interoperable European federated Simulation Network for critical Infrastructures
DIS	ICT	Distributed Interactive Simulation
DOC		Direct Operating Cost
DoS	ICT	Denial of Service
DSS		Decision Support System
DVE	ICT	Distributed Virtual Environment
DVMRP	ICT	Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
EII	ICT	EISAC Interoperability Infrastructure
EIII	ICT	EII Interface
EIIM	ICT	EISAC Interoperability Infrastructure Middleware
e-IRG	EU	e-Infrastructures Reflection Group
EISAC	EU	European Infrastructures Simulation and Analysis Centre
ENISA	EU	European Network and Information Security Agency
ERA	EU	European Research Area
ERNCIP	EU	European Reference Network for Critical Infrastructure Protection
ESFRI	EU	European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
FC	ICT	Federation Controller
FCM	ICT	Federation Control Module
FOM	ICT	Federation Object Model
FONT	ICT	Federation Ontology
FTP	ICT	File Transfer Protocol
GIS	ICT	Geographical Information System
GPS	ICT	Global Positioning System
HLA	ICT	High Level Architecture
HMTP	ICT	Host Multicast Tree Protocol
ICT	ICT	Information and Communication Technologies
IONT	ICT	Infrastructure Ontology
IP	ICT	Internet Protocol
IPC	ICT	Inter-process Communication
JESS	ICT	Java Expert System Shell
JVM	ICT	Java Virtual Machine
KBS	ICT	Knowledge Base System
LAN	ICT	Local Area Network
MANET	ICT	Military Ad-hoc Networks
MST	ICT	Minimum Spanning Tree
MTBF		Mean Time Between Failures
NAC	ICT	Network Access Control
NAT	ICT	Network Address Translation
NSA	Security	National Security Agency
NTP	ICT	Network Time Protocol
OGSA	ICT	Open Grid Services Architecture
OS	ICT	Operating System
OWL	ICT	Web Ontology Language
P2P	ICT	Peer-To-Peer
PDES	ICT	Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
PDU	ICT	Protocol Data Unit
PN	ICT	Physical Node
PNeT	ICT	Physical Network
PoC		Proof of Concept
QoS		Quality of Service
QRT	ICT	Queue Reader Thread
RNN	ICT	Random Neural Network
RO	ICT	Receive Order
RP	ICT	Rendezvous Point
RPC	ICT	Remote Procedure Call
RTI	ICT	Run Time Infrastructure
RTT	ICT	Round-Trip Time
SLA		Service Level Agreement
SOA	ICT	Service-Oriented Architecture
SOAP	ICT	Simple Object Access Protocol
SOAP-RPC	ICT	SOAP Remote Procedure Call
SONT	ICT	Simulator Ontology
SPT	ICT	Shortest Path Tree
SQL	ICT	Structured Query Language
SSL	ICT	Secure Sockets Layer
SWRL	ICT	Semantic Web Rule Language
TBCP	ICT	Tree Building Control Protocol
TCM	ICT	TCP Communication Module
TCP	ICT	Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP	ICT	Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol
TLS	ICT	Transport Layer Security
TMM	ICT	Time Management Module
TPoC	EU	Technical Proof-of-Concept
TSO	ICT	Timestamp Order
UDM	ICT	UDP Communication Module
UDP	ICT	User Datagram Protocol
UML	ICT	Unified Modeling Language
VN	ICT	Virtual Node
VNet	ICT	Virtual Network
WAN	ICT	Wide Area Network
WP	EU	Work Package
WSDL	ICT	Web Services Description Language
XML	ICT	Extensible Markup Language
XSL	ICT	Extensible Stylesheet Language
XSLT	ICT	XSL Transformations
Yoid	ICT	Your Own Internet Distribution