Enhancing a Package: Overview

SyncroSim can support packages with a variety of features. By harnessing the built-in SyncroSim core, we can enhance our package to create more complex models or modelling workflows that use multiple data types, visualize our model results within the SyncroSim user interface, and quantify the uncertainty of our model outputs.

For a SyncroSim Package, the model code can take many forms. For example:

• New models are directly supported in any .NET language (e.g. C#, VB.Net, F#).
• Existing models can be wrapped and take advantage of SyncroSim's automatic data management.
• There are packages for both R and Python to make it easy to write models in these programming languages.

SyncroSim Packages can be shared with others in one of two ways:

• By making the Package available as a file (with an extension of .ssimpkg).
• By submitting the Package to the SyncroSim Online Package Server, where approved Packages are listed and then available for automatic download from within SyncroSim.

What Next?

• First add timesteps and charting capability to your package
• Then represent uncertainty of the outputs by incorporating Monte Carlo realizations
• Next link Models by adding a pipeline to your package
• Finally integrate spatial data into your package

Note

All of these articles assume that you have completed the previous tutorial on Creating a Package. They also assume that you are familar with the Windows or Unix command-line and with the SyncroSim Package Manager command-line utility. Some familarity with SyncroSim and XML is also assumed.