Using the Unified Modeling Language to develop soil water-balance and irrigation-scheduling models

✍ Scribed by Petraq Papajorgji; Tamara M. Shatar

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 395 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1364-8152
• DOI: 10.1016/s1364-8152(03)00160-9

✦ Synopsis

Many water-balance and irrigation-scheduling models have been developed as research and/or management tools. These models continue to be modified or re-used by other research groups. A method for developing and documenting these models, using the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is presented. This method simplifies documentation of model requirements, assumptions and calculations and provides a template for implementing the model in programming languages. Using the template can simplify the processes of code re-use and model modification.