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Various pressures and needs are driving demand for ever more elaborate models, thorough analysis of sensitivity and uncertainty, and rigorous quality assurance. A number of contemporary projects are looking at one or other of these issues, but the pressing need for a common meta-model or ontology of modelling - a model of models and of the modelling process - is overlooked. Meaningful tool integration can only be achieved if those tools share a schematisation of the world, or ontology. Easy tool integration can only be achieved if those tools use a shared data representation grounded in that shared ontology. This paper introduces an effort to develop such an ontology and representation, the Model Description Framework, layered on top of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) of the World Wide Web Consortium. The use of RDF provides a number of benefits, among which are its capacity to provide the basis for an Internet scale infrastructure for distributed collaboration around shared descriptions of models.
Author(s): Harvey H, Hall JW, Evans J
Editor(s): Liong S-Y; Phoon K-K; Babovic V
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Year of Conference: 2004
Number of Volumes: 2
Pages: 1131-1138
Publisher: World Scientific
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9812387870
