Structural Modeling: A Workflow-Based Approach

@inproceedings{EulerRM2000,
 abstract = { 3D modeling tools are now mature. At the opposite of former industrial practice where only 3D software experts where able to build 3D subsurface models, it is now time to give geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers, user friendly tools. It should dramatically increase their productivity and interpretation potential. Software providers are currently supplying tools to help geoscientists to handle often complex 3D tools. Each proposes its “workflow manager”. The goal is always the same: helping people to save time and consistency. One of these goals is achieved with the rise of new gOcad structural object and its methods. It is now time to give end users, geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers, a straightforward access to this outstanding object. During the first part of this paper, we present the needs for the industry to integrate in gOcad a notion of workflow which consists in organizing the sequence of operations to realize in order to perform a good modeling and to facilitate their access and their use. Then, just after introducing the notion of the existing wizard, we describe the new notion of workflow with: Its mechanisms based on a decision graph and a Model-View-Controller approach, And its properties like the possibility to generate a modeling report, to have access to instant guideline information, to select either a guided or advanced mode. In the third part, we detail the graphic interface of the workflow and finally, we introduce the structural workflow and its organization. },
 author = { Euler, Nicolas AND Gout, Claude AND Gomez, Jean-Paul AND Duvinage, Isabelle AND Mariez, Olivier },
 booktitle = { 20th gOcad Meeting },
 month = { "june" },
 publisher = { ASGA },
 title = { Structural Modeling: A Workflow-Based Approach },
 year = { 2000 }
}