The key enabler of the toolkit is the third generation of a software infrastructure called DOME (Distributed Object-based Modeling Environment). DOME is a Web-based, simulation modeling environment that supports emergent and integrated design processes. Employing DOME, the toolkit can advance toward its main goal by taking advantages of the following capabilities and characteristics of DOME:

• Accessibility through the Internet
• Multiple interfaces for end-users
• Computation-status feedback for end users
• Implementation of new models
• Wrapping of third-party models
• Deployment and permission settings
• Model integrations
• Computation with distributed resources
• Declarative model integrations and parameter mappings
• Solving mechanism
• Collaborative design
• Informed decision making with an optimization tool

Details of these capabilities and characteristics are provided in the following pages.

 

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