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Supporting Developers In Complex Systems Modelling, Antonio A. Lopez-Lorca, Ghassan Beydoun, Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar, Holly Tootell
Supporting Developers In Complex Systems Modelling, Antonio A. Lopez-Lorca, Ghassan Beydoun, Rodrigo Martínez-Béjar, Holly Tootell
Associate Professor Ghassan Beydoun
Development of complex systems often requires building a large number of models with many interconnections and dependencies among them. The success of a project can be compromised by cognitive overload or limits of developers, who might miss relationships between elements of the models. Developing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is a typical example of where this may occur. Despite of its potential, this technology has not yet been widely adopted by industry due to its complexity and frequent errors in modelling activities. These errors typically propagate to later phases of the MAS development lifecycle, becoming costlier to fix and then lowering the …
Metamodelling Approach To Support Disaster Management Knowledge Sharing, Siti Hajar Othman, Ghassan Beydoun
Metamodelling Approach To Support Disaster Management Knowledge Sharing, Siti Hajar Othman, Ghassan Beydoun
Associate Professor Ghassan Beydoun
Handling uncertain events that could happen anytime and anywhere and dealing with many complex systems interconnected physically and socially makes Disaster Management (DM) a multidisciplinary endeavor and a very difficult domain to model. In this paper we present a development and validation of a Disaster Management Metamodel (DMM), a language that we develop specific for describing DM domain. The metamodel, a precise definition of the constructs and rules needed for creating the semantic models of DM domain consists of four views based on four DM phases including Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery-phase classes of concept. A Model Importance Factor (MIF) …