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The term model management was coined in the mid-1970s in the context of work on decision support systems (DSS) (Will, 1975; Sprague and Watson, 1975). An important objective of the DSS concept was to provide an environment in which decision makers could gain materially useful insights by interactively exercising OR/MS models. However, developing such an environment required principled solutions to problems of specifying, representing and interacting with models. This focus on models, and in turn on modeling, led to the study of model management, defined broadly to encompass: the study of model representation, the set of operations facilitated by such representation, and computer-based environments that facilitate modeling.

What follows is a brief review of work in two areas that have been actively studied in model management. First, we review work on languages to specify models, and on the development of techniques to facilitate operations that support modelers in both...

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Krishnan, R. (2001). Model management . In: Gass, S.I., Harris, C.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-0611-X_630

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