Paper Info
Title
A Case Study in Model Management: The US Coast Guard, GAO, TEFA-2, and Structured Modeling with Embedded Languages
Abstract
In this paper we present something of a case or fieldstudy of model management. We begin by listing anddiscussing a series of commonly-voiced reasons not touse modeling and model management systems. We thensummarize the findings from a GAO (Government Accounting Office) report on a proposal made by the USCoast Guard. The GAO report was highly critical of theanalytic work behind the Coast Guard proposal and thisled to its rejection. We then revisit the list of reasonsnot to use models and model management systems andwe find them largely implausible. Following this, we describe the elements of a prototype model managementsystem, TEFA-2, which is able to store informationabout models that is sufficiently rich to generateStructuredModeling reports as well as documented Mathematica files, which can be used to execute the modelsand obtain graphical output from them. TEFA-2 is asimple system (although it draws upon the sophisticatedtheory underlying Structured Modeling) and only a prototype. Yet, we believe, it and systems like it can go farto ameliorate the kinds of problems that provoked theGAO report.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1109/HICSS.1997.663198
HICSS (5)
Keywords
Field
DocType
informationabout model,generatestructuredmodeling report,thegao report,case study,structured modeling,coast guard proposal,uscoast guard,government accounting office,us coast guard,prototype model managementsystem,gao report,model management,model management system,management science,technology management,database management systems,computer aided software engineering,statistics,field study,prototypes,information science,context modeling,mathematical model
Software engineering,Computer science,Model management,Guard (information security),Management science,Government
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1060-3425
0-8186-7743-0
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
hua hua100.34
Steven O. Kimbrough2600103.93