SIMUL8 Newsletter
This month we have a few words for 2010 from our Founder, Mark Elder. Mark has been really busy in the past year shaping SIMUL8 for the future and is looking forward to another busy year in 2010. Read Mark's letter here.
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attending and contributing to (in our view) the best of all the simulation conferences – the bi-annual “Simulation Workshop” run by the UK’s “
Hi,
From ‘Web Based Simulation’ to new product releases, there’s so much going on at SIMUL8 this year I thought I better write it all down before I forget.
Lots of people have been writing recently about “Web Based Simulation”, what it is, what people really want, and whether any of it is better than “non-web-simulation”.
My view is that “web” and “simulation” go together in as many ways as “computer” and “simulation” and rather than trying to define it we should just use the technology as appropriate for different situations. What we don’t want to do is use old technology when the new is what users would expect.
Here at SIMUL8 we have been delivering simulation via the web to “end-users” of simulations (i.e. decision makers who just want results from simulations) for cases where animation is not important since 2001 using SIMUL8 ASP edition. However we are now seeing more people expecting all simulation runs to be available in a web browser. At last we have this technology working really well and you can expect it to emerge as a polished product at some time this year.
It will, at last, fulfil one of my dreams – that we can point people to simulations to run, explore, change and learn from, on the web, without them having to get some software first – that means we will see mass public use of simulation to understand issues like: Why is it best in certain stages of an epidemic to close schools and yet not close schools at other times? Why is it best for a city to “share services” with another? When does one healthcare system work better than another?
So that will mean increased demand for simulation. Demand will also increase because of the recent Gartner announcement: In its “Top 10 technologies for 2010” Gartner, the firm of business analysts and researchers, has cited “simulation and optimization” as its number two in the list. To be fair to the analysts at Gartner they have actually been telling people in Business Process Management to use simulation for some years. But I think they have now put it in their top 10 because they are seeing such a sudden need to push cost-savings and efficiency and they know it is the only way to get that “right-first-time” – so they expect that to push demand.
Having missed WinterSim in December for the first time in many years, I’m looking forward to the European based equivalent in March. It will be good to see what our European friends are up to and I’m hoping to spot other researchers we can collaborate with, so hopefully I'll see you there.
Please let me know if you have ideas for how we should do things differently – we do listen and you will see some big changes (for example in how we do our documentation) this year.
Mark
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