DOME (Distributed Object-based Modeling Environment) is an innovative software infrastructure that is used as a key enabler for the Alternative Energy Design Toolkit. Developed by the CADlab at MIT, DOME is a Web-based, simulation modeling environment that supports emergent and integrated design processes. Users of DOME can quickly create simulations for large integrated systems and predict likely characteristic before implementing prototype systems.
DOME is an implementation of the world-wide simulation web (WWSW) concept. The WWSW is analogous to the world-wide web (WWW) in a way that it lets people share their own and discover others' ideas. More specifically, the WWSW allows people to express their ideas and knowledge in forms of models, both mathematical of geometric. People can learn and develop upon others' ideas to create a new idea, as they study and built upon, or integrate, others' models to produce a new model. This process is much similar to how people discover others' Web pages, make links to them, and add more contents to generate a new Web page.
All of the characteristics of DOME mentioned in this section are discussed in detail in the section Learn > DOME concepts.
DOME is an implementation of the world-wide simulation web (WWSW) concept. The WWSW is analogous to the world-wide web (WWW) in a way that it lets people share their own and discover others' ideas. More specifically, the WWSW allows people to express their ideas and knowledge in forms of models, both mathematical of geometric. People can learn and develop upon others' ideas to create a new idea, as they study and built upon, or integrate, others' models to produce a new model. This process is much similar to how people discover others' Web pages, make links to them, and add more contents to generate a new Web page.