Information-Active Systems Design Tool: “IS-2” Integrated Environment

Abstract

The article describes the tool for designing information-active systems - the integrated environment “IS-2”: the concept of the methodology automation of intellectual labor (MAIL), the method of modeling the visual integrated environment, its structure, and features of the software solution. The Methodology Automation of Intellectual Labor (MAIL) offers an industrial way to create information-active, intelligent, automated and other systems. Their design involves the formation of models at three stages - initial modeling, conceptual modeling, and infological modeling. To automate the design process according to MAIL, a visual integrated environment (VIS) that supports this process is being developed at MSUT “STANKIN”. A formal description of the structure of the models, the structure of creating models process, the method of modeling VIS has been completed. The features of the integrated environment “IS-2”, obtained in the process of its development such as the formation of a universal (library of universal components used in the development of modules) component and specialized, are described. The composition of the versions is described including graphical editors for forming constituent models and their linking, means of intermediate documentation of models in the form of diagrams and specifications, and prototypes of modules for supporting analytical processing and synthesis of models.