Registers and Sources of Ecological Models

• WWW Server for ecological modelling
• EPA Center for exposure assessment & modelling
• Information sources at Environment Australia
• CAMASE register of agro-ecosystems models
• SOMNET Soil organic matter models and data sets
• The Environmental Modelling Centre
• EPA page on data and software
• CEE/ODU Civil/Environmental Computer Model Library (CEML)
• EPA, Watershed Tools Directory
• Spatially Distributed Hydrologic modeling
• ENVIRO-NET Groundwater Modelling and Analysis Software
• International Ground Water Modeling Center (IGWMC), Software List
• Hydrology Web, Computing Software - Hydrology

Documents

• Population ecology by A. Sharov
• Quantitative curriculum for life sciences by L. Gross
• USDA Report on model needs
• Mathematics and biology report
• Symposium on systems analysis in forest resources
• Forest EcosystemDynamics (FED) Project
• Biotechnology Information Center
• Connectivity and complexity in landscapes and ecosystems by D. G. Green

(mathematical) concepts in modelling:

• Petri Nets
• Introduction to Monte Carlo Methods
• Software Design for 1-D Moving Mesh Method by Shengtai Li
• object oriented concepts
  • Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Methods a Comparative Review
  • A Comparison of OOA & OOD Methods
• bond graph
  • THE BOND GRAPH COMPENDIUM by F. E. Cellier
  • Bond Graph's Bookmark by D. Defalco
• cellular automata
  • Methods for Designing Cellular Automata with `Interesting' Behavior by H.A. Gutowitz and C.G. Langton
  • Arifical life index
• Individual-Based Models by C. Reynolds

Simulation Modeling Methodolgy and Guides:

• Simulation Modeling Methodolgy:
  Principles and Etiology of Decision Support
  by E. H. Page, Jr.
• CAMASE Modelling guide
• DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEMS SIMULATION by H. Arsham
• State Events in Continuous Modelling and Simulation,
  Concepts, Implementations and New Methodology (by J. Plank)
• Computer Simulation: The Art and Science of Digital World Construction by P. A. Fishwick
• Simulation for the Social Scientist by N. Gilbert and K. G. Troitzsch
• A Survey of Web-Based Simulation

dictionaries, thesauri:

• Web Dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems
• AGROVOC FAO thesaurus

online journals:

• ECOMOD Newsletter

List of books/virtual libaries:

• List of ecological modelling books by M. Knorrenschild
• Statistics books on the net

Lectures:

• MATHEMATICAL ECOLOGY, Lecture Notes by Mark Kot
• Environmental Geoscience - Lectures by Martin Palmer
• Ökologische Modelle by H. Manske, G. Meyer, R. Wiegmann (german)
• Land Evaluation Lecture Notes, Part 3: Modeling D G. Rossiter
• Introduction to Surface Water Quality Modeling by J. Parsons
• Modellierung & Simulation by Goldkuhle, Kohorst, Portscheller (german)

Databases

• ERIN Environmental information of Australia
• ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center for biochemical dynamics
• Central European Environmental Data Facility, Vienna
• USGS Internet resources.

Simulation software

Documents about simulation and simulation software

• OR/MS - Survey of discrete-event simulation software
• SimTools Summary
• Information about Selecting Simulation Software
• Software Comparison (ARGESIM)
• Marktübersicht über Simulationssysteme
• Magdeburg Simulation Web Page
• McLeod Institute of Simulation Sciences

Model description languages

• VHDL
  • IEEE 1076.1 Analog and Mixed-Signal Extensions to VHDL
  • VHDL easy
• Modelica
• MML

List of products (general):

• 20-sim, Controllab Products Inc.
• ACSL
• AME: A Modelling Environment for ecological and environmental research
• ANDECS, Dsblock, DLR
• ARENA, Systems Modeling
• AutoMod, AutoSimulations
• BSIM Simulation Package
• BuildSim, Tritera
• CSIM18, Mesquite Software Inc.
• C++SIM simulation package Simula-like simulation classes in C++
• Delsi, Softland
• DESIRE, DESIRE/NEUNET, G. A. and T. M. Korn Industrial Consultants
• Dymola, Dynasim
• DYNAST, TU Prag
• EAI Simulation Associates, Inc.
• EASY5, Boeing
• ECOSIM
• EXTEND (Imagine That, Inc.)
• GPSS, Wolverine Software
• MATLAB/SIMULINK, The MathWorks Inc.,
  Scientific Computers
• Matrixx, Integrated Systems Inc.
• MicroSaint, Micro Analysis & Design
• MINOPT A Modeling Language and Algorithmic Framework for Linear, Mixed-Integer, Nonlinear, Dynamic, and Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization
• ModelMaker, Cherwell Scientific
• mosis, TU Wien
• MS1, Lorenz Simulation
• Octave
  Octave Manual
• PASION32
• POSES++, TU Chemnitz
• Powersim, Powersim Corp.
• ProModel, PROMODEL Corporation
• Prophesy, Abstraction
• QASE, AST Engineering Services Inc.
• RAMAS Library of Ecological Software
• Scilab, INRIA
• SDX, Eclipse Software
• SIGMA: The Scientists' Intelligent Graphical Modeling Assistant Project
• SILK, a Java-based modeling tool
• The SIMEX approach to micropopulation simulation
• SIMFLEX/2
• SimFuzz, Mentalogic Systems
• SIMPLE++, AESOP
• SIMPLEX II(software)| introduction
• SIMPLORER, SIMEC
• SIMJAVA
• SIMSCRIPT, COMNET, MODSIM, CACI Products Company
• SIMsystem, Applied Dynamics
• SimOS, Stanford
• SIMUL8, Visual Thinking
• SME , Spatial Modelling Environment
• StarLogo (artifical life, cellular automata)
• Stella II ( High Performance Inc.)
• Strategizer, SES Scientific and Engineering Software Inc.
• SystemView, ELANIX, Inc.
• Taylor II, F& H Simulations
• Parallel software tool for ecological simulation (TEMPEST)
• THINK, Microfusion Eng. Lab. Inc.
• VisSim, Visual Solutions Inc.
• VSS (Virtual Systems Simulator) a Stella-like simulation package

Cellular automata:

• Cellang, the Cellular Automata Simulation System

Individual oriented modelling & simulation:

• EcoTools - High Level Tools for Modeling and Simulation of Individual-Oriented Ecological Models
• Swarm (a general purpose simulation software package)

Neural Networks:

• SNNS Stuttgart Neural Network Simulator

Parameter estimation:

• LM-OPT: General-Purpose Nonlinear Parameter Estimation
• PEST : Parameter Estimation for any Model

Analysis:

• Ecosystem Network Analysis

Finite Element Method

• Internet Finite Element Resources An excellent collection of links to information related to FEM.
• FEMur - The Finite Element Method Universal Resource
• FEM Software A large collection of FEM software and links.

IDEA, Internet Differential Equations Activities

• CMLIB NIST CORE MATH LIBRARY
• NAG
• IMSL
• MBSSIM - An Integrator Library for Simulation of Multibody Systems

Initiatives

• Simulation server by S. Lundberg
• NASA Global Change Master Directory
• WWW Virtual Library. Sustainable development
• Mission Earth of the SCS
• Australia strategy for sustainable development
• The EnviroComp Institute

Societies

• International Society for Ecological Modelling
• Society for Mathematical Ecology
• Ecological Society of America. Theoretical Ecology Section
• Society for Computer Simulation
  • SCS Europe
• EUROSIM (Federation of European Simulation Societies)
• INFORMS College on Simulation
• SiE-WG-8467, Simulation in Europe (EU)
• ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation

Departments, research centers

• Multiscale Experimental Ecosystem Research Center (MEERC) at the University of Maryland
• Geographic Systems Modeling Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• USDA-ARS: Remote Sensing & Modeling Lab (RS&ML) at Beltsville
• The Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory (NREL) at Colorado State University

Journals

• Elsevier Science Table of Contents
• Springer
• Nature
• Science
• Simulation, SCS
• Transactions of SCS
• Simulation Practice and Theory, Elsevier Science B.V.
• Simulation News Europe, ARGESIM Wien
• CIT, Journal of Computing and Information Technology

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

• Soft Earth - software by P. Ingram
• Virtual Earth - connections by P. Ingram
• Numerical analysis by P. Sullivan
• Nonlinear science by J. Meiss
• Meteorology - introduction by I. Stern
• Science data formats by I. Stern
• Satellite imagery - part1 by N. Kew
• Geographic Information Systems by L. W. Nyman
• About Cellular Automata edited by H. Gutowitz
• All other FAQs

Extensive Lists of Links

• Virtual Library. Environment
• Amazing Environmental Organization Directory
• Sites for ecologists by A.R. Brach and J. Thioulouse
• Environmental resources sites by J.T. Oris and J.W. Gooch
• Design Methods: Analysis: Simulation
• Discrete Event Simulation

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