HarmoniQuA MoST

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HarmoniQuA MoST
Presenter affiliation name - country
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Index

• Modelling Support Tool - MoST
• What are its capabilities?
• How is it used?
• How does it look?
• How to get detailed instructions?
• How to obtain your copy of MoST?
• How to participate?
• Methodology?
• Effectiveness / efficiency
• Conclusion

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The Capabilities of HarmoniQuA MoST

• Enables set-up of a multidisciplinary model-based
  project for water management
• Facilitates fine-tuning of modelling process
  definition by skipping irrelevant tasks from
  templates
• Monitors the work of modelling teams
• Facilitates reporting for specific audiences
• Advises using experience from previous modelling
  projects

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How to use HarmoniQuA MoST (1)

• Project administrator defines a project in terms
  of
• Subproject, disciplines / domains (GW, HD, PR,
  FF, WQ, BI, SE)
• Tasks of the model project
• Users and their roles (Water manager, modeller,
  auditor, stakeholder, public)
• Authorisation of users
• Etc.
• Start project

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How to use HarmoniQuA MoST (2)

• Client server, with
• Server application stored on a central server
  (LAN, Internet)
• Client application ( MoST) on a local PC
• Users undertake a task within their role by
• Starting it
• Doing one or more activities (or skipping them)
• Several users can conduct an activity
  simultaneously
• Doing an activity involves describing it,
  (automatically) fill-in start/end dates,
  selecting methods, attaching files to the
  activity, making decisions, etc.

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How does MoST look?
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How to get detailed instructions?

• Training material includes
• Presentations
• Instructional movies on MoST (flash screen
  recordings)
• HarmoniQuA
• Guidelines (KB)
• Model project set-up
• Project execution
• Reporting
• Advising
• Hands-on exercises / workshops / case studies
• Background information

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Obtaining your copy of MoST?

• http//harmoniqua.wau.nl/most/install.htm
• www.HarmoniQuA.org/deliverables.htm
• CD-ROM

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How to participate?

• Go to www.HarmoniQuA.org/tools
• Register (for free)
• Login
• Give comments on modelling guidelines
• Give comments on glossary
• Participate by filling in and returning
  questionnaires
• Etc.

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MoST methodology?

• MoST
• Guides modelling teams through a network of tasks
• Knowledge base with guidelines
• Collected and improved by experienced modellers
• Discussed with many others
• Therefore shared by substantial parts of the
  professional community
• Monitors the work of modelling teams and allows
• Auditing (with scoreboards)
• Reconstructing model projects
• Provides a conceptual framework for
  multidisciplinary modelling
• Is MoST a methodology? ? yes !

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Effectiveness / efficiency

• Some opinions / prejudices
• Its too cumbersome
• Too prescriptive
• Inefficient
• Too rigid, a straightjacket
• Too complex
• Is this true?
• Find out yourselves !

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Conclusions

• Complex, but easy to learn
• Flexible
• Guiding, but not forcing
• Training material aims at flattening the steep
  learning curve
• Hands-on experience is MoST persuading to use it