REPLY Open Source Simulation Software for SD (SD6799)

[SDMAIL Jean-Jacques Laublé]

Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>

Hi every body

I agree with both Richard's when they say that software companies must have
a return from their effort and that nothing is gratuitous.
The minimum that should be accessible is the code of the application and a
sufficient  documentation.
A software reader should be interesting too for some people.

Personally if I am really interested by a model, I will translate it into
Vensim that I master relatively well. Translating a model from one language
to another is the best way to understand it. But to do that one must have access to the
code and preferably to a documentation inside or outside the model.

For instance I could not read any model written in Powersim from the papers
of the last SD conference.
It should always be possible for any papers from the SD conference to
rebuilt the model in one's preferred software of course it the paper subject
is about a model.

That should be the first thing to verify when accepting a paper.
Otherwise what is the interest of publishing a paper if one is not even able
to run the model or eventually modify it?
Regards.
Jean-Jacques Laublé Allocar Eurli
Strasbourg France
Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>
posting date  Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:23:22 +0100