An XML-based modeling language for the open interchange of decision models

These days, a modeling tool or environment has to know about the others on the market and build bridges to them with which their customers insist on s haring models and data. When it is based on a closed architecture, a tangle of import/export point translators is required. Using an exchange standard , we can design an open architecture for the interchange of models and data . XML (Extensible Markup Language) provides a framework for describing the syntax for creating and exchanging data structures. The explosive growth of XML-based proposals and standards reflects the urgent requirements and its strength. This paper proposes an XML-based language for sharing models wit hin the MSOR/DSS community. The language is able to allow applications and on-line analytic processing tools to models obtained from multiple sources without having to deal with individual differences between those sources. ( C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.