VSEit: Versatile Simulation Environment for the Internet

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Welcome to VSEit - the Versatile Simulation Environment for the internet.

VSEit will help you

to build simulation models,

and to make them accessible to a wide range of users via internet.

VSEit is a framework of over 50 Java classes that facilitates implementing simulation programs and disseminating them via internet. Ongoing development of this piece of software is guided by two intentions:

Let modelers easily build a wide range of Java based simulation models while not limiting the capability for adding custom components.
Make the resulting simulation models accessible to a variety of users that might wish to

browse a simulation, just to get an idea of its logic and dynamics,
carefully study a model that may be part of a publication,
conduct comprehensive simulation experiments.

Accordingly, VSEit exhibits (or will exhibit) a set of features summarized in the table below.

Features	Modeler's Perspective	User's Perspective
Existing	Efficient implementation of object-oriented, stochastic event driven simulations	Similar appearance and usage of different simulations
	Easy-to-customize components for parameterization and graphical output	Modern GUI, interactive simulation control
	Easy dissemination of simulations via WWW	Easy access of simulations via standard WWW browser
	Templates for model documentation	Integrated documentation and help facility
Planned	Uniform definition of parameter variations	Simulation experiments
	Graph library to facilitate the handling of complex models	Graphical specification and output of network structures
	Libraries for modeling agents (e.g., belief networks)	Multi-agent models
	Client server implementation	Distributed gaming

Follow the links below if you like to learn more about VSEit, look at some examples, or inspect the documentation for modelers and users:

About (past, present, and future of VSEit)
Examples of simulation models
Modeler's Guide (model building with VSEit, framework architecture, tutorial, modeler's programming interface)
User's Guide (using VSEit simulation models, how to ..., reference)