Oksimo

OKSIMO FCL Visual Editor and OKSIMO Simulator CLI
Basic data
developer	Institute for New Media eV
Current  version	Version: 0.8.4
operating system	Linux, Windows, MacOSx
programming language	Eclipse (IDE)
category	Models & simulation
License	Open source
German speaking	Yes
http://oksimo.inm.de/

Open Knowledge SImulation MOdeling (OKSIMO) is a simulation software based on the Factor Connector Language (FCL) developed by the Institute for New Media eV Frankfurt , which has been made available to a broader public since April 2009 as part of the OKSIMO project and on Planet Earth Simulator (PES) project builds up. The name OKSIMO is registered as a trademark .

The project is being driven forward under the leadership of Gerd Döben-Henisch , a computer science professor at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences .

The open source simulation software developed as part of several diploma theses is available for free download. The source code of the software is also available on the Internet. To support the further development of the software, a Bugzilla portal was set up for OKSIMO in which software errors are documented.

OKSIMO components

Program components

OKSIMO essentially consists of two program components, the OKSIMO FCL Editor and the ForSYnt- based OKSIMO Simulator CLI, with which the models created in the FCL Editor can be simulated. Individual models created with the FCL Editor can be integrated into a higher-level model using drag and drop , according to the user manual, which is also supplied with the download as a PDF file .

Model libraries

OKSIMO models can be saved both locally and in a central model database, which is technically supported by Hessisches Telemedia Technologie Kompetenz-Center eV . The list of existing models currently appears to be relatively limited, but should gradually increase over the course of the project.

Built-in library

The system currently includes an OKSIMO built-in library with prefabricated models for further use, for example in your own models. This includes various basic models, which are arranged according to the following topics:

• communication
• Conversion
• mathematics
  • Arithmetic operations
  • trigonometry
  • Matrices
• Word processing
• system

Logic Model Library

OKSIMO also comes with a library called Logic Model (LModel for short), which currently contains the following models:

• A replica of Jay Forrester's World2 model described in his book " World Dynamics " (1971).
• Models that enable population forecasts to be made using the cohort component method .
• three models with which the behavior of Lotka-Volterra systems can be simulated, these are so-called predator-prey models .
• that a model of the behavior of a single binary neuron represents
• a model of an artificial neural network whose behavior corresponds to the behavior of the XOR function

There are also working instructions for artificial neural networks as well as model examples for simulating the future:

• compound interest
• World population
• Growth barriers using fresh water as an example
• Two person games

Example models from the PES project

The OKSIMO download package also contains the following local example models that still originate from the original PES project from OKSIMO:

• Model of a simple addition
• Percentage calculation model
• Two models for population growth in the FRG
• Model for calculating energy consumption
• VAT calculation model

Areas of application

OKSIMO is kept very open and general and can therefore be used, for example, to simulate neural processes in the brain or to model population development in a city.

Web links

• Website of the Institute for New Media
• OKSIMO at e-learning Hessen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ History of OKSIMO
2. ↑ OKSIMO project
3. ↑ PES website
4. ↑ Gerd Döben-Henisch website at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences ( memento of the original from April 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ OKSIMO download
6. ↑ OKSIMO Bugzilla
7. ↑ FCL Editor documentation
8. ↑ OKSIMO ForSYnt documentation
9. ↑ OKSIMO user manual (PDF; 5.1 MB)
10. ↑ OKSIMO model database
11. ↑ Artificial Neural Networks - Working Note ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ Simulation of the future
13. ↑ Needs analysis of the desired living, housing and care situation of the 50+ generation in Rödermark, Offenbach district by Marianne Waldmann
14. ↑ heise.de - Wikipedia of the processes