Constraint-based metaview approach for modeling environment generation

摘要

Modeling environments for decision support systems (DSS's) play an important role in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of model-related work. The task of developing such an environment, however, is complicated and time-consuming. To improve the productivity and quality involved in the development of modeling environments, a metaview approach for generating these environments is proposed in this paper. Specifically, a constraint-based modeling framework is designed to specify modeling environments and associated modeling activities. The framework is based on a metaview that any modeling environment is a constraint enforcement system. A prototype environment generator called MetaDSS has been implemented. The practical generation of a modeling environment, a structured modeling environment specifically, is demonstrated using the MetaDSS.