Patent ID: 9147015
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for creating a model of a technical system on a computer that has a display, the method comprising: providing the model, the model including at least two model components of a same class, and each model component having at least one input and at least one output; establishing links between the inputs and the outputs of a first model component and the inputs and the outputs of a second model component, such that the inputs and the outputs of the first model component are linked to the inputs and outputs of the second model component; making a first selection of at least one of the inputs and/or the outputs of at least one of the model components; making a second selection of inputs and/or outputs of at least one of the model component; displaying the inputs and/or the outputs of the first selection in a list form in a first column of the display; and displaying the inputs and/or the outputs of the second selection in the list form in a second column of the display, wherein displaying the inputs and/or outputs of the first and second columns are automatically positioned close to each other to represent the linkage of the first and second model components and wherein the automatic positioning is performed by an optimization operation that includes minimizing a sum of position deviations or a sum of squares of position deviations of the linked inputs and/or outputs of the model components in the columns.