A Computerised Inventory for Water Resources Models. Guariso, G. & Werthner, H. Environmental Software, 1(1):40–46, June, 1986.
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This paper presents a prototype of a computerized inventory of water resources models, developed at the Laboratorio di Informatica Territoriale ed Ambientale (LITA), Politecnico of Milan. Its main purpose is to overcome some of the difficulties encountered in diffusing to a wide range of potential users the tools developed in recent years by system analysis techniques, by presenting them in a format which is easy and accessible to all the potential users, so that a manager may quickly determine if a model is suitable for a given application. Following a short review of past attempts and proposals in this field, a format for model description is presented. The prototype inventory has been implemented on a personal computer, using a common commercial DBMS. Some advantages and problems of this implementation are also discussed in the paper. Furthermore, an attempt is made to identify the basic features of a user-friendly interface for the data base in order to allow the non-computer-oriented users to easily access and extract information from the inventory. Such interface has been implemented using the programming facility of the DBMS and its structure is briefly described.
@article{guarisoComputerisedInventoryWater1986,
  title = {A Computerised Inventory for Water Resources Models},
  author = {Guariso, Giorgio and Werthner, Hannes},
  year = {1986},
  month = jun,
  volume = {1},
  pages = {40--46},
  issn = {0266-9838},
  doi = {10.1016/0266-9838(86)90035-3},
  abstract = {This paper presents a prototype of a computerized inventory of water resources models, developed at the Laboratorio di Informatica Territoriale ed Ambientale (LITA), Politecnico of Milan. Its main purpose is to overcome some of the difficulties encountered in diffusing to a wide range of potential users the tools developed in recent years by system analysis techniques, by presenting them in a format which is easy and accessible to all the potential users, so that a manager may quickly determine if a model is suitable for a given application. Following a short review of past attempts and proposals in this field, a format for model description is presented. The prototype inventory has been implemented on a personal computer, using a common commercial DBMS. Some advantages and problems of this implementation are also discussed in the paper. Furthermore, an attempt is made to identify the basic features of a user-friendly interface for the data base in order to allow the non-computer-oriented users to easily access and extract information from the inventory. Such interface has been implemented using the programming facility of the DBMS and its structure is briefly described.},
  journal = {Environmental Software},
  keywords = {*imported-from-citeulike-INRMM,~INRMM-MiD:c-12624394,computational-science,environmental-modelling,metaknowledge,modelling,water-resources},
  lccn = {INRMM-MiD:c-12624394},
  number = {1}
}

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