Simulo

Simulo is a fictional open-source software framework designed to support simulation and modeling across disciplines. It provides modular components for building discrete-event, agent-based, and continuous-time models, with an emphasis on reproducibility, portability, and educational use.

Architecture and interface: The framework centers on a core simulation engine with a pluggable solver interface, enabling different numerical methods and event queues. Models can be authored through a Python API or a declarative YAML format, and the system records configurations, seeds, and software versions to enable exact replication of experiments.

Features: Event-driven simulation, agent-based modeling, parameter sweeps and experimentation, scenario branching, built-in visualization and data export, logging, and provenance tracking. It supports interoperability with common data formats (CSV, JSON, HDF5) and containerization for reproducibility.

Use cases and workflow: Researchers and educators define models, configure experiments, run simulations, and analyze results with standard plotting and statistics. The platform emphasizes cross-disciplinary reuse and easy sharing of model configurations.

Development and community: Conceptual project with an open governance model; development occurs on public repositories; licensing is typically permissive. Notable limitations include performance compared with optimized simulators and the ongoing need for community contributions.

See also: Agent-based modeling, Discrete-event simulation, Reproducible research, Simulation software.