Patent ID: 8924193

Claim:
A device, comprising: one or more processors to: receive model information associated with a modeling application; determine first conflicting information and second conflicting information in the model information, the first conflicting information and the second conflicting information describing different characteristics of a model described by the model information; format the first conflicting information and the second conflicting information in a manner that designates the first conflicting information as a first variant of the model and that designates the second conflicting information as a second variant of the model, the model, when executed with the first variant, behaving in a different manner than when executed with the second variant; provide the formatted first conflicting information and the formatted second conflicting information to the modeling application; provide, via a user interface and based on providing the formatted first and second conflicting information, information that identifies the first variant and information that identifies the second variant; receive a user selection of information that identifies one of the first variant or the second variant; and execute the model based on the user selection.