• Design Considerations for a Simulator
• Framework Information Settings
• Creating a Calibration Diagram
• Sim Binding Links in 4.7.0+
• Breaking out a mini model for focused work

Also see the TOOL Quick Reference Card.

• Good TOOL Coding Practices
• Tune your TOOL code for memory and/or runtime constraints
• Unit of Measure Conversions
• TOOL Shell Scripts
• Conditional logic for code running in simulation vs calibration

• Interacting with the user in views
• General View Writing
• Common History and Background Checks
• Multiple Scenario Display Views
• Feedback views
• View templates

• Boolean Masks
• Projecting a Variable into Simulation Time
• Ranges
• Using maps
  • Many to one mapping with non-summation aggregation rule
  • Apply aging using a map

• Constrained summations
• Sub-shares using categories
• Using a relative propensity
• Scaling/normalizing to a control total
• Table lookup using classify and dimtran

• Sub-routine package

• Model Loading: From Documenter to SAMM
• Model Loading version 4.7.0: From Documenter to SAMM
• Updating model code and diagrams without a full reload
• Run a calibration to produce a history
• Prepare initialization views
• Typical errors and solutions

The articles in this section discuss how to interact with data files external to the model.

• Overview of reading data
• Data Format vs File Format

• A Simple Import View

• Reading data into arrays
  • Importing Informant Definitions - Sets and Categories
  • Use create to make set informants from data file and use them for a test load
  • Use create pick apart complicated data files

• Importing and tabulating record-based datasets
• Geographic data
• Reading Beyond 20/20 (.ivt) data

• Creating Import Templates
• Importing/Exporting time slices using a for loop

• Import examples - single import() calls

• Export Views
• Export to .csv
• Export to "template" format

• Export examples

• Projecting Into History

Root finding methods. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root-finding_algorithm

Brute force:

• Tracking Method - Deviation ratio multiplier
• Tracking Method - Deviation ratio addition

More specialized/sophisticated:

• Tracking Method - Minimizing Root Mean Squared Difference with 5 point bracketing - bi-section variant
• Tracking Method - Minimizing Root Mean Squared Difference with 5 point bracketing - yet to be implemented

• Displaying data with geomap

• Running Data through Documenter
• Model Debugging in SAMM

• Connect to model hosted at whatIf

Setup:

• Server Systems Requirements
• Setup server from scratch
• User and Model Accounts Setup
• Model Family Directory Structure

Common tasks:

• Move Scenarios from old server to new
• Make an account specific tmp directory
• Virtual Machine (VM)- Install and Administer

Trouble shooting:

• Model Base Checking
• Model Base Patching
• Freeing a ReadOnly documentor file