Frequently Asked Questions

General

What is a Design of Experiment (DoE) ?

What's the difference between factors and inputs ?

What is an exploration application ?

We call exploration application the object that you build with SimExplorer to explore your numerical model. The term application is there to fall in the context of computational purpose.

What is an exploration workflow ?

What are metadata?

IDE

How to disable a component in an exploration ?

You have to select the component in the "Applications" view, and to bring up the "Properties" view. Then, you will find a checkbox labelled "Run" in this "Properties" view. If you uncheck this option, the component will not be executed during the next explorations.

Developer

How to run SimExplorer without the GUI (batch mode) ?

Go into the module "simexplorer-runtime" and run :

mvn -o exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="org.simexplorer.runtime.SimExplorerRuntimeProxy" -Dexec.args="-equinox target/product/ -input yourFile.xml"

What is Literate Programming ?

• Literate programming as been proposed by D. Knuth’s
• some links and references

How to get Information System source ?

• project page
• public website