A software engineering perspective on environmental modeling framework design: The Object Modeling System

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 39, Issue , 2013, Pages 201-213

  David, O ^a,b   Ascough, J C ^c   Lloyd, W ^a,b   Green, T R ^c   Rojas, K W ^d   Leavesley, G H ^a   Ahuja, L R ^c  

^a Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^b Colorado State University   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental modeling frameworks; Modeling and simulation; Object Modeling System; Software design; Software engineering

Indexed keywords

CODE DEVELOPMENT; CODE GENERATION; COMPONENT INTERACTION; COMPONENT-BASED MODELS; COMPUTATIONAL SCALABILITY; DATA TRANSFORMATION; DESIGN GOAL; DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES; ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL PHENOMENA; FRAMEWORK DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL UNITS; HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; IMPLICIT PARALLELISMS; MODEL COMPONENTS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODELING AND SIMULATION; MODELING PROCESS; MODELING TOOL; MULTI-THREADING; OBJECT MODELING; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE FRAMEWORKS; SPATIAL DATA;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA VISUALIZATION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DATABASE; DESIGN METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84870298278     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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