Andy Whitmore
Over the last decade storage capacity and processing ability have increased dramatically in power while significantly falling in price. At the same time organizations have come to understand the importance of maintaining and leveraging large quantities of electronic data whether it is to improve customer service and internal operations or to comply with applicable legislation. These conditions are beginning to give rise to the possibility that some parts of the modeling process could be automated. This presentation will demonstrate an application that is designed to filter through organizational databases, find model structure hidden within the data and output a simulating Vensim model. The hope is that by automating the modeling process, or parts of it, System Dynamics models will be available to a wider audience, more grounded in data, and much quicker to construct for large systems.