This article discusses an object oriented approach to industrial software development using Mathematica. We present the package Elements for structured representation of physical, engineering and mathematical objects. This package introduces object oriented paradigms into Mathematica and is used to develop a modeling environment built on a knowledge base where classes' and objects' properties and relations are maintained in a consistent, transparent, and extensible way. We show how this tool can be applied to design models parametrized by structured objects instead of just simple values.     «

This article discusses an object oriented approach to industrial software development using Mathematica. We present the package Elements for structured representation of physical, engineering and mathematical objects. This package introduces object oriented paradigms into Mathematica and is used to develop a modeling environment built on a knowledge base where classes' and objects' properties and relations are maintained in a consistent, transparent, and extensible way. We show how this tool can...     »