Empowering decision support with simulation technology - Scenario Navigator

The commercial simulation environments that are available today focus primarily on the development of simulation models. They are designed for a single user. They provide animation during the simulation run and in most cases they provide outcomes of the simulation run in reports. Our experience in developing computer based simulation models with different commercial and non-commercial simulation software packages and found that these packages do not offer sufficient support in: performing experiments with large complex models, performing experiments with multiple users, managing experiment data and results, analyzing the experiment results and comparing them. The items that are summarized above are a necessity to bring simulation technology to a wider use. Simulation technology could be very well used as an operational decision support tool. In order to meet this demand we have developed Scenario Navigator, a client-server based application that allows multiple users to create, populate, run, analyze and compare experiments.