Updatability of identifiers
Dynamic control required
In many applications you, as a modeler, might need to have dynamic control over the updatability of identifiers in the graphical end-user interface of your model. AIMMS provides several ways to accomplish this.
Multiple phases in your application
A typical example of dynamically changing inputs and outputs is when your model is naturally divided into multiple decision phases. Think of a planning application where one phase is the preparation of input, the next phase is making an initial plan, and the final phase is making adjustments to the initial plan. In such a three-layered application, the computed output of the initial plan becomes the updatable input of the adjustment phase.
Indicating input and output status
To change the updatability status of an identifier in the graphical interface you have two options.
You can indicate in the object Properties dialog box whether all or selected values of a particular identifier in the object are updatable or read-only.
With the set
CurrentInputsyou can change the global updatability status of an identifier. That is, AIMMS will never allow updates to identifiers that are not in the setCurrentInputs, regardless of your choice in the properties form of a graphical object.
The set CurrentInputs
The set CurrentInputs (which is a subset of the predefined set
AllUpdatableIdentifiers) ultimately determines whether a certain
identifier can be treated as an input identifier for objects in an
end-user interface. You can change the contents of the set
CurrentInputs from within your model. By default, AIMMS initializes
it to AllUpdatableIdentifiers.
The set AllUpdatableIdentifiers
The set AllUpdatableIdentifiers is computed by AIMMS when your model
is compiled, and contains the following identifiers:
all sets and parameters without definitions, and
all variables and arcs.
Thus, sets and parameters which have a definition can never be made updatable from within the user interface.