A Functional Schematic Interpreter: an environment for Model Design
T. R. Addis, JANICE J. TOWNSEND ADDIS · 1998
There are two major reasons for the value of a functional schematic interpreter as a new programming language for constructing models. These reasons are the capacity of a functional language to express knowledge that has a formal representation on a computer and the rich informal semantics that can be attached to a set of diagrams (a schema). It is this informal semantics that help designers manage the complexity of model design. The combination of formal and informal semantics provides an elicitation, a specification and design language that can be run. The effect is the improved performance of system design through a path of minimal error. The design of complex models is shown to be further managed by two other strategies: the