AN OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH TO MODEL MANAGEMENT

The goal of this research is to propose an object-oriented framework for the specification, storage and manipulation of decision models in conceptual analysis of model management. The framework consists of two major parts: a conceptual structure, within which a decision model is represented in the form of a class and an inheritance mechanism enables a new class to be specified by making use of properties in existing ones; and manipulation operations, which is a set of high-level operators for the retrieval and update operations in a model management system. Based on this framework, the inheritance rules have been derived from function specialization within classes. As a result, an inheritance rule checking system has been designed and implemented to find out the inheritance relationship between two classes.