Object-Oriented Biomedical System Modelling - A short presentation

The rationale and a short tutorial for object-oriented biomedical modelling are given. The paper investigates what is needed in order to make the work with complex biomedical models easier and conceptually clearer than is possible by using the existing modelling techniques, and in order to make these models communicable among different research groups and sites. The paper also describes shortly a novel Object-Oriented Biomedical System Modelling Language, OOBSML. The language supports explicit definition of model input-, output- and state quantities, model components and component connections. The model compiler produces self-contained, independent, executable model components that can be used within other models. Copyright (C) 2000 IFAC.