Vânia Bessa Machado and Bredeweg, 2002.
Investigating the Model Building Process with HOMER.
Proceedings of the International workshop on
Model-based Systems and Qualitative Reasoning for Intelligent
Tutoring Systems, pages 1-13, San Sebastian, Spain,
June 2nd, 2002, B. Bredeweg (editor).
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Abstract
An experimental study is presented,which investigates the process
of building qualitative simulation models using HOMER,a tool for
building qualitative models of systems.HOMER consists of
a number of dedicated editors aiming at decomposing the
complexity of the model building process
into more manageable subtasks.The aims of the present
study are (a) validating the original task
analysis underlying the implemented system and the
resulting task decomposition, (b) identifying
problems and/or misconceptions users encounter when
building simulation models, (c) assessing the
tool's usability in supporting the model building
process,and (d) defining possible improvements and
faults of the present version.