Execution of Nonprocedural Components

This chapter

The collection of all set and parameter definitions form a system of functional relationships which AIMMS keeps up-to-date automatically. This chapter discusses the dependency structure of the system, the kind of expressions and statements allowed inside the definitions, and the way in which the relationships are re-computed.

Spreadsheets

The nonprocedural execution mechanism discussed in this chapter resembles the execution of spreadsheets. Definitions can be placed in any order by the model builder, but the logical order of execution is determined by the system. As a result, you can easily formulate spreadsheet-based applications in the AIMMS modeling language by merely using definitions for sets and parameters. Of course, the modeling language in AIMMS goes beyond the modeling paradigm of spreadsheets, as AIMMS also offers procedural execution which is found in programming languages but not in spreadsheets.

• Dependency Structure of Definitions
• Expressions and Statements Allowed in Definitions
• Nonprocedural Execution