Solving CAPE models from Microsoft Office applications

摘要

Even if today problem solving environments may include editing capabilities, CAPErnengineers keep on exchanging their simulation models and results through MicrosoftrnOffice documents. In order to maintain consistency between data written in textualrndocuments and data handled by calculation systems, we suggest to make Officerndocuments CAPE software frameworks. The eXMSL for Microsoft Office plug-inrnforwards equations present in documents to a calculation system which solves them.rnResults are available as equations which can be inserted anywhere in the document.rnSuch an approach seems to be fruitful mainly because it is based on softwarerncomponents, a paradigm now widely spread inside our CAPE community.