Simulistics

First meeting of Steemi,the Student Ecological and Environmental Modelling Initiative on Tuesday 7th February 2012. Ecological and environmental models are a vital tool for capturing our understanding of complex human/nature systems, and for exploring possible futures in the face of unprecedented global challenges.

It is now possible to load, parameterize, execute and interrogate a previously saved Simile model within an R language script.
The interface package for doing so is available via The Comprehensive R Archive Network (http://cran.r-project.org) by the name Simile. Current version is 1.1. It is compatible with all Simile platforms, and requires Simile version 5.8 or later.

Simile v5.9 is a maintenance release, providing incremental improvements to many existing features and fixing some problems that have come up.

Simile 5.8 is now listed on at Mac Informer, a system maintenance tool for the Mac.

Simile verion 5.7 was released on 17th August 2010. We have made Simile more beautiful in a number of ways, but there are serious improvements to functionality too...

Simile v5.6 was released on 22nd December 2009. This release fixes a few problems that have come up as Simile starts to be used on machines using a wide variety of international character sets, particularly on the newer versions of Windows where these characters are more likely to occur in installatio directory names. We urge everyone who has had problems in the past with special characters to try installing the new version.

Simile version 5.5 was released on 21st August 2009. It is essentially a maintenance release, but incorporates some new features...

New constraint checking
 

Simile v5.5 contains some new checks that are applied when running a model to make sure it is consistent. These include:

The initial version of the Plant Systems-biology Modelling (PlaSMo) website is now online.  The website provides introductory information about the project.