2. Using the BDSS: The Workflow ManagerΒΆ
The Workflow Manager allows the user to easily construct a graph of functions, optimize this graph and view the results graphically. A number of terms are specific to the BDSS and the Workflow Manager or otherwise have a specific meaning within them.
- Workflow
- The directed graph of functions that models a process.
- Data source
- A node (function) in the graph (workflow).
- Data value
- An input or output of a node (data source).
- Parameter
- An input of the graph (workflow) and how that input should be treated (as a numerical or categorical variable, etc: see below).
- Key performance indicator (KPI)
- An output (criterion or objective) of the graph (workflow).
- MCO.
- Multi-criterion optimizer.