Modelica—An International Effort to Design an Object-Oriented Modeling Language
Hilding Elmqvist, Martin Otter, Sven Erik Mattsson · elib (German Aerospace Center) · 1998
A new uniform language called Modelica for physical modeling has been developed in an international effort. The main objective is to make it easy to exchange models and model libraries. The design approach builds on non-causal modeling with true ordinary differential and algebraic equations and the use of object-oriented constructs to facilitate reuse of modeling knowledge. The paper gives an overview of Modelica and plans for the further development.