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Ease of use

Simile's visual modelling environment is based on the widely-used System Dynamics notation, involving the drawing of stock-and-flow and influence diagrams. Both concepts are intuitive, and thus readily learnt.

Chapter 1: Features

This chapter sets out the features of Simile.

Basic concepts

This section describes the basic concepts involved in modelling with Simile.

Simulistics and ICIMOD (HKKH) sign collaboration agreement

19th August 2007: HKKH Partnership for Ecosystem Management
Simulistics and ICIMOD sign Letter of Agreement for collaboration in the HKKH Partnership for Ecosystem Management.

Simile version 4.9 released

What's new in Simile v4.9?

Released 29 June 2007

 

Simile 4.9 corrects several minor problems with the previous version, and has a few significant improvements over Simile v4.8:

Simile v4.8 released

What's new in Simile v4.8?

Released 22nd January 2007

 

Simile 4.8 has been released in order to provide support for new hardware and operating systems. It also adds some powerful new features, and includes changes to the user interface code to improve response times when editing very large models. There are also a large number of bug fixes. Here is a list of some of the more significant improvements that have been made over Simile v4.7:

January 2007: Book: "Realizing Community Futures" is available.

January: Book: "Realizing Community Futures" is available.
Visit the "Realizing Community Futures" book web site for example Simile model and other resources.

January 2007: Simile featured in "Scientific Computing World" Finance feature

January: Simile featured in "Scientific Computing World" Finance feature
"Getting fisical with phynance?" by Felix Grant

9th October 2006: Simile v4.7 released

What's new in Simile v4.7?

Released 9th October 2006

 

Simile 4.7 is a maintenance release, primarily to fix problems that have become apparent as more people start using Simile. It also allows models to be saved in a format suitable for publishing via our forthcoming Web interface to model execution. Here is a list of some of the more significant issues that have been addressed since Simile v4.6:

May 2006: Simile featured in "Scientific Computing World" magazine article

May: Simile featured in "Scientific Computing World" magazine article
"Why is Lego the best toy in the world?" by Felix Grant

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