22nd Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Harrogate, UK, 28 August - 1st September, 2000
Paper ICAS 2000-1.10.1

MANAGING THE AIRPORT COMPLEXITY: CONTRIBUTION OF THE OBJECT-ORIENTED APPROACH

M. Lemoine
ONERA Centre de Toulouse, France

Keywords: airport, functional and structural description, object-oriented model, validation

In this paper we emphasise how a computer science technology, namely the Object-Oriented [OO] approach, is able to help modelling large and complex systems such as airports. We will demonstrate how the building of an Information System for the Airport will allow to better manage current and future solutions. First of all we introduce very briefly the 2 used notations: Use Cases and Class Diagrams that respectively allow to model the functional and structural points of view. We show how some application constraints can be taken into account. We then emphasise how these models can be validated by end users such air traffic controllers, pilots, … These models constitute the rigorous and static specification of Decision Support System [DSS] and Collaborative Decision Making systems [CDM] that should be used to introduce new procedures, new regulations, etc.

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