Mathematical Programming Modeling Systems in a Database Environment: Collaborative Research with Boston University

该提案概述了最近关于结构化建模框架的工作的扩展，其中包括基于该扩展框架开发原型建模系统。这项提议很有趣，因为它让一位非常有创造力和生产力的研究人员参与了一个项目，该项目包括运筹学三个重要领域的元素：模型表示、建模系统的构建和算法设计。开发一个原型数学规划建模系统是建模系统设计和应用的重要下一步，数据库环境将为该系统本身生成模型。许多管理科学家和其他研究人员对这一领域感兴趣，但提案中建议的方法，即应用面向对象的编程语言来解决模型构建问题，被认为是新颖和非常有前途的。该项目的范围是雄心勃勃的，但也是必然的，有可能在模型管理问题上获得高回报，这将是运筹学和管理科学研究界的核心理论和应用兴趣。

This proposal outlines an extension of recent work on structured modeling frameworks that includes the development of a prototype modeling system based on this extended framework. The proposal is interesting because it involves a very creative and productive investigator in a project that includes elements from three important areas of operations research: model representation, construction of modeling systems, and algorithmic design. The development of a prototype mathematical programming modeling system, for which the database environment would itself generate the models, represents an important next step in the design and application of modeling systems. A number of management scientists and other researchers are interested in this area but the approach suggested in the proposal, which would apply object-oriented programming languages to address model construction, is considered to be novel and highly promising. The scope of the project is ambitious but necessarily so, with the potential for a high payoff regarding issues of model management that would be of central theoretical and applied interest to the operations research and management science research communities.