# Distributed Interactive Simulation **Domain:** Simulation standards / Military training **Doc Type:** Developed System Node **Maturity:** Developed **Collection:** [[collections/Gamification|Gamification Collection]] ## Definition **Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS)** is a family of standards and protocols for exchanging state and events among networked simulations. It lets separately implemented participants and systems interact within a common synthetic environment. ## Significance DIS generalizes a core lesson of [[wiki/SIMNET|SIMNET]]: interoperability can matter more than placing every function inside one monolithic simulator. Shared state, timing, identity, and event semantics turn many machines into one arena and make protocol design part of the environment's constitutional topology. ## Routes [[wiki/SIMNET|SIMNET]] · [[wiki/Common Virtual Environment|Common Virtual Environment]] · [[wiki/Synthetic Training Environment|Synthetic Training Environment]] · [[wiki/Right to Integrate|Right to Integrate]] ## Sources - [[articles/gamification/America Loves Games and the Home Court Advantage|America Loves Games and the Home Court Advantage]] - [IEEE 1278 Distributed Interactive Simulation](https://standards.ieee.org/ieee/1278.1/3787/)