Authors: Cosimo Spera, Marco Gagliardi
Tags: 1997, conceptual modeling
The success of a Decision Support System (DSS) can be mainly attributed to the language it uses. The language has to be: (1) powerful, so as to express a wide variety of problems; (2) flexible, so as to be managed and updated not only by the vendors but also by the end-users; and (3) user-friendly, so as to minimize the time necessary for learning how to model the problem and derive its solution if a well defined solution exists. Often the term “user-friendly” also means that the system provides graphical tools for the user, which constitute the Graphical User Interface (GUI). In this paper we introduce the reader to the implementation features of an Object Oriented language, called BLOOMS (Basic Language Object Oriented for Modeling Systems), designed by the authors. BLOOMS has to be viewed not only as a different implementation of Structured Modeling (SM) languages, but also as a possible extension of SM in the framework of Object Orientation.
