Design and integration of ICT tools for OCOPOMO policy modelling approach

Abstract

This paper describes design and integration of several tools for ICT-based support of knowledge intensive activities within the process of collaborative policy modelling proposed by the project OCOPOMO. This process combines collaborative creation and analysis of narrative scenarios with agent-based simulation models. The policy model for a given domain is created iteratively using cooperation of several stakeholder groups (decision makers, analysts, companies, civic societies, and the general public). Integration of scenario generation module, annotation module, model preparing phases and simulation tool (with the visualization tools) makes the whole OCOPOMO platform. The main focus of the paper is on the presentation of design and integration aspects of the architecture. Therefore, we describe software components, functionality, as well as some integration details.