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DATE Tuesday, November 24, 1992
TIME 4:30-6:00 P.M.
PLACE 3400 Boelter Hall
Cookies & Coffee Will Be Served
Starting at 4:00 PM

TOWARDS A MODELING AND DATABASE SYSTEM FOR LARGE-SCALE
EARTH SCIENCE APPLICATIONS.
Terence R. Smith,
Professor of Geography and Computer Science,
University of California at Santa Barbara.

ABSTRACT 
The talk describes progress that is being
made towards the design and possible implementation
of a modeling and database system (MDBS) that is being
designed jointly with earth scientists to
support scientific modeling in data-intensive
and numerically-intensive investigations.
One may characterizes scientific modeling as the
iterative definition of an appropriate set
of named domains of elements viewed in terms
of representation, value constraints, applicable
transformations, and  interrelationships, together
with sequences of applicable transformations of
domain elements. Our MDBS is designed to support
a high-level, declarative modeling and database
language (MDBL) in which scientists may easily specify
complex domains of spatio-temporal
elements and associated transformations. We exemplify
applications of MDBS with representations in MDBL
of modeling problems involving Amazon hydrology.