Scaling up the Public use of
Simulation via YouSIMULATE.com
Mark Elder
Fast, Easy to Use Simulation Software
SIMUL8 Corporation
SIMUL8.com
Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888
info@SIMUL8.com
Agenda
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What is YouSIMULATE?
What Drove us here?
Demonstration
How to use YouSIMULATE
How to embed simulations in YOUR website
How this drives the demand for Operational Research
The Technology – how the magic works
Where next?
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What is YouSIMULATE?
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What is YouSIMULATE?
• YouTUBE but not videos: Interactive Simulations
• Runs simulations in any web browser
– no software required
• Free to
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upload,
run,
experiment,
review results,
and improve the process
• Discrete Event Simulations
• For Anyone to Use
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What Drove Us Here?
• SIMUL8 Corp Objective 1:
– Put simulation on every Process Engineer’s desktop
• SIMUL8 Corp Objective 2:
– Put simulation on every Decision Maker’s desktop
• Decision Makers unaware of simulation
• YouSIMULATE spreads the knowledge
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YouSIMULATE - Demo
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How to use YouSIMULATE
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Create the simulation model
Expose decision variables via menus, dialogs, spreadsheets etc
Upload the simulation model file
Add title and description
Either:
– Email a link to your “users”
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– Write a web page or blog and “embed” the simulation in the text
• Users view, run, experiment with your live simulation
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Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888
info@SIMUL8.com
Likely Uses
• Embedding simulation inside Press Releases
– Councils save £4.8B by modelling Shared Services
• ORS Web Site “OR in Schools” Project
• Resources for Equipment Distributors
– See How Our Photocopier will save you $X
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Teaching / Tutorial / Training Web sites
Communicating Results of Simulation Studies
Sales Lead Generation by Consulting Firms / Internal OR Teams
Public Information
– Why is the SLA not met 100% of the time?
• © Spreading
theSIMUL8.com
Benefits of Modelling
SIMUL8 Corporation
Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888
info@SIMUL8.com
How it Drives Demand for OR
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Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888
info@SIMUL8.com
How it Drives Demand for OR
Positive Feedback Loop / Virtuous Circle
Model Builders Upload
Simulations that
Illustrate Successes
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SIMUL8.com
Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888
info@SIMUL8.com
How it Drives Demand for OR
Positive Feedback Loop / Virtuous Circle
Model Builders Upload
Simulations that
Illustrate Successes
Press Stories and
other PR Drives
Interest in Live
Simulation Websites
© SIMUL8 Corporation
SIMUL8.com
Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888
info@SIMUL8.com
How it Drives Demand for OR
Positive Feedback Loop / Virtuous Circle
Model Builders Upload
Simulations that
Illustrate Successes
Press Stories and
other PR Drives
Interest in Live
Simulation Websites
Website Visitors Think
“If only I had one of my
own process”
© SIMUL8 Corporation
SIMUL8.com
Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888
info@SIMUL8.com
How it Drives Demand for OR
Positive Feedback Loop / Virtuous Circle
Model Builders Upload
Simulations that
Illustrate Successes
Press Stories and
other PR Drives
Interest in Live
Simulation Websites
Demand for
Simulations to Satisfy
“I want one” Visitors
Website Visitors Think
“If only I had one of my
own process”
© SIMUL8 Corporation
SIMUL8.com
Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888
info@SIMUL8.com
How it Drives Demand for OR
Positive Feedback Loop / Virtuous Circle
Model Builders Upload
Simulations that
Illustrate Successes
More Simulations to
Upload
Press Stories and
other PR Drives
Interest in Live
Simulation Websites
Demand for
Simulations to Satisfy
“I want one” Visitors
Website Visitors Think
“If only I had one of my
own process”
© SIMUL8 Corporation
SIMUL8.com
Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888
info@SIMUL8.com
How the Magic Works
• Very Simple Web Browser Capability
– AJAX
• Receiving messages from SIMUL8 running on “The Cloud”
• The Cloud for Scalability
• Technology Circle Completes One Cycle per Career (!)
– IBM 380 (mainframes) talking to “intelligent” terminals
– The Cloud processing power talking to Simple Web Browsers
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Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888
info@SIMUL8.com
Where Next?
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Any (Discrete Event) Simulation Product
Games – Can you run your local A&E any better?
Competitions – Win an iPad for most compelling simulation of…
Now it’s on Cloud – look what else we can do…
YouOTHER_OR_Techniques.com
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YouSIMULATE.com
Upload your Simulations!
Download slides from SIMUL8.com/mark/YouSIMUL8_ORS.zip
© SIMUL8 Corporation
SIMUL8.com
Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888
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© SIMUL8 Corporation
SIMUL8.com
Tel: 1 800 547 6024 | +44 141 552 6888
info@SIMUL8.com