| Simantics System Dynamics | |
|---|---|
 Current Simantics System Dynamics Logo | |
 Simantics System Dynamics 1.8.1 workbench | |
| Developer | Simantics Team |
| Initial release | January 2012; 14 years ago (2012-01) |
| Stable release | 1.35.0 |
| Written in | Java (programming language) |
| Operating system | |
| Type | Simulation software,Decision making software |
| License | Eclipse Public License |
| Website | sysdyn |
Simantics System Dynamics is a ready-to-usesystem dynamics modelling andsimulation software application for understanding different organizations, markets, and other complex systems and their dynamic behavior.[1]
Simantics System Dynamics is used for modelling and simulating large hierarchical models with multidimensional variables. The models are created in a traditional way withstock and flow diagrams andcausal loop diagrams. Simulation results and the model structure can be analyzed with different visual tools.[2]
Simantics System Dynamics is developed on the Simantics Platform and is released underEclipse Public License[3] and provided asopen-source software.
The development was initiated by a group of activesystem dynamics modellers who had needs and ideas for an open toolset. The new needs for features likehierarchical modules, module libraries,collaborative model development and efficient model communication in system dynamics together with the development of open source modellingframework Simantics and simulation environment OpenModelica[4] drove the developers to start developing an open source modelling and simulation software for system dynamics.[5]
Simantics System Dynamics has several key features[6]
Simantics System Dynamics (as any other Simantics based product) is built on top ofEclipse and therefore theUser interface logic follows closely the one introduced in Eclipse.
Simantics System Dynamics workbench window contains one or more perspective and perspectives contain different views and editors. Views are used to represent data in different ways. Editors are used for the actual modeling.[7]
Simantics is an open source software platform especially for modelling and numerical simulation. It is a grounding to build a modelling and simulation software or to integrate different software tools.
Simantics platform utilizes heavilysemantic data driven technique. All the data in the Simantics platform database is described using semantic data models andontologies.[8] In addition to the database, Simantics platform contains many features and user interface elements that are common to most simulation and modelling tools like diagram editor, symbol library and different kind of experiment and state management.[9]