The Integrated Modeling Environment (IME) is a software system that establishes a centralized Web-based interface for integrating people (who may be geographically dispersed), processes, and data involved in a common engineering project. The IME includes software tools for life-cycle management, configuration management, visualization, and collaboration. It enables organized, efficient communication of engineering analyses and the statuses thereof. Key functions performed by use of the IME include creation, further development, and management of modeling analyses over their entire life cycles; publishing model and analysis information for availability and reuse throughout the user community; and managing legacy information without regard to original formats, database organizations, or computing platforms. The use of the IME creates an archive of analysis results, plus documentation that identifies the assumptions and data elements used for each analysis. This archive is configured to enable reuse of previous analysis results, and tracing of types and versions of software used for each step of each analysis. The IME utilizes a customized version of a commercial product-life-cycle-management application program that provides rich capabilities for managing configurations, workflows, data, and access through a single Web-based environment.

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