A Domain Specific Language to Simplify the Creation of Large Scale Federated Model Sets

Abstract

This paper presents an attempt to address the challenge of modeling complex systems in which people, energy, and the environment meet. This challenge is met by developing a simple domain specific language for buiding systems models in a federated modeling environment. The language and its support infrastructure are designed for simplicity and ease of use. This language is demonstrated using a thermodynamic model of a biomass cookstove for the developing world as an example, and the use of the tools described in this paper to further extend that cookstove model into an end-to-end design tool for cookstoves and other energy systems for the developing world is discussed.

Towards a federated approach to energy systems modeling

“…This payload is organized by a system of message contracts. Message contracts are loosely defined composite data types, or structures that bundle together related variables (Reinhart et al, 2017). The definitions of these message contracts are stored in a central database.…”