Computer Science

Graduate Research Forum Details

Support for Model Coupling: An Interface-based Approach

Abstract

Increasingly scientists need to couple model codes. Often this is a time consuming and error prone process and as of yet there has been little in the way of automated support. Such support may be possible with better representations of the coupling-relevant aspects of a model. Our work seeks to design such a representation and then use it as basis for the specification of model coupling interfaces, a model coupling language, and ultimately a prototype model coupling environment for hydrology. Our goal is to provide infrastructure that will allow scientists to quickly prototype potential couplings.