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The ACCEL system - an introduction

The ACCEL-system is a light-weight, general purpose modelling environment for mathematical modelling. It combines some ideas from spreadsheets, Matlab, and traditional highschool mathematics. Its main features are the following:
  • Named quantities and readible expressions. You write things like 'a=b+c*exp(-4*x)', and these expressions are numerically evaluated.
  • Every '='-expression is in fact a functional definition: in 'a=b+c' you introduce a function that expresses 'a' in terms of the values of 'b' and 'c'.
  • ACCEL assumes that a mathematical model comes about iteratively. Each time a new (functional) definition is entered, it may contain quantities that have not yet been defined. ACCEL keeps track of these in a to-do list; once the to-do list is empty, the model is executable.
  • Input quantities are set by means of direct manipulation using sliders, check boxes, input text fields or buttons.
  • Output can be presented visually in the form of a dynamically scrolling graph for each output quantity. Graphs of various forms are supported.
  • ACCEL supports both statical and dynamical models: in evaluating expressions, quantities' earlier values can be queried, so a future state can be computed making use of present and past values of quantities.
  • ACCEL comes with intuitive fully automatic sensitivity analysis, showing the relative sensitivities of output quantities as functions of input quantities.
  • ACCEL has on-board genetic optimisation to deal with (statical) multiple-objective problems, using the SPEA algorithm by Sitzler et al.
  • ACCEL contains an extensive online help system explaining all built-in functions and other features.
  • ACCEL has a host of built-in linear algebra functions, courtesy of Peter Coxhead (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~pxc/)
  • Although javascript applications cannot read and write files, ACCEL models can be stored on the client computer by means of simple cut-n-paste using a text window.
  • Running directly in the browser, ACCEL requires no plugins or downloads, and it is completely free of charge.
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Listing:
User input:
Results:

Arg.-s:

Arg. of:

To Do list:

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Demo scripts:
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Relative sensitivities:
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range from:
argH to:
range to:
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nr. contours:
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population size

nr. new generations

max. percentage on front

random

arb. mutant

close mutant

cross over

binary tournament

drop-off rate Save node-locations to script