Composing a structured model from validated submodels for effective model management

  • Suh, Chang-Kyo (Managrment inforation Systems Lab Department of industrial Engineering, POSTECH) ;
  • Suh, Eui-Ho (Managrment inforation Systems Lab Department of industrial Engineering, POSTECH)
  • Published : 1990.04.01

Abstract

Structured modeling provides a formal mathematical framework, language, and computer-based environment for conceiving, representing, and manipulating a wide variety of models. It provides a natural framework for integrated modeling owing to its explicit representation power for computational dependencies among submodels. Nevertheless, it doesn't seem to offer a systematic way of composing a structured model from submodels. In order to develop a systematic way, this paper discusses three key issues; (1) Genus structure of validated submodel, (2) Storing method of genus structure, and (3) Integration of genus structures to generate a new genus structure. To visualize the approach, a programming module is developed to implement the step-by-step integration.

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