I'm looking for Systems Dynamics software (e.g. Stella) for Ubuntu, preferably open source. Recommendations for non packaged software that runs on Linux are also welcome.
Thanks.
The answer to this question appear to be no. These past few days I found several free or open System Dynamics programmes that should run on Ubuntu, but none is packaged at this time; some of them are just code libraries. Here's the list:
DynSim - a Java package, apparently undocumented.
MapSim - a simulation engine for System Dynamics. Provides a .NET library that works on Windows and under Mono on Linux plus a simple GUI tool. MapSim uses its own modelling language described in a reference manual.
NetLogo - the famous agent based modelling framework; supports system dynamics models as a secondary feature.
Sphinx SD Tools - a project dedicated to create a common accessible environment for System Dynamics simulation. It is developed on the Java 6 platform and uses the Java Swing GUI.
SystemDynamics - a graphical Java application for modelling, visualisation and execution of System Dynamics models.
Simile - A proprietary System Dynamics and object-based modelling and simulation software package similar to Stella, Model Maker, Vensim, etc. A free evaluation version, which limits the size of saved models, is available.
