Towards a paradigm for activity modeling

Model Integrated Computing (J. Sztipanovits and G. Karsai, 1997) involves defining a domain-specific language that allows for someone to effectively program an environment at whatever level the modeling environment creator deems appropriate. We have taken several complex, heterogeneous systems that posed problems of needing integration and requiring frequent reconfiguration at very high levels. The paper discusses: gathering the specifications for these systems, how the systems can be represented at these high levels in a paradigm also capturing the specifications, and then how reconfiguring this group can proceed. All of the activities constituting monitoring functionality and the resulting decision making exposed by the information system are shown to have been solved through utilization of Model Integrated Computing techniques.