The Mobius modeling tool

Despite the development of many modeling formalisms and model solution methods, most tool implementations support only a single formalism. Furthermore, models expressed in the chosen formalism cannot be combined with models expressed in other formalisms. This monolithic approach both limits the usef...

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Published inProceedings 9th International Workshop on Petri Nets and Performance Models pp. 241 - 250
Main Authors Clark, G., Courtney, T., Daly, D., Deavours, D., Derisavi, S., Doyle, J.M., Sanders, W.H., Webster, P.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2001
Subjects
Algorithm design and analysis
Distribution functions
Particle measurements
Petri nets
Polynomials
Queueing analysis
Software tools
Time measurement
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Summary:Despite the development of many modeling formalisms and model solution methods, most tool implementations support only a single formalism. Furthermore, models expressed in the chosen formalism cannot be combined with models expressed in other formalisms. This monolithic approach both limits the usefulness of such tools to practitioners, and hampers modeling research, since it is difficult to compare new and existing formalisms and solvers. This paper describes the method that a new modeling tool, called Mobius, uses to eliminate these limitations. Mobius provides an infrastructure to support multiple interacting formalisms and solvers, and is extensible in that new formalisms anal solvers can, be added to the tool without changing those already implemented. Mobius provides this capability through the use of an abstract functional interface, which provides a formalism-independent interface to models. This allows models expressed in multiple formalisms to interact with each other, and with multiple solvers.
ISBN:9780769512488
0769512488
ISSN:1063-6714
2332-6433
DOI:10.1109/PNPM.2001.953373