AlanZhang
03-21-2008, 12:27 PM
The exprerimenter and report in the new version is greatly improved. I really like it. It saves me a lot of time for post processing the simulation results.
One bug exists when you View Results in Performance Measures. If your number is happen to be integer, the number will be displayed with hundreds of tailing 0s. For example, if it is 1, then you will see 1.0000000000000000000000... in both Performance Measurement window and the Experiment Report. See attached picture.
Here I have several suggestions:
1.
It would be good if we can choose only some of defined PFMs will go into report. This is good if you defined a lot of PFMs but some times you only want to report part of them.
2.
It would be good if we can choose only output graphics, and/or raw data.
3.
At the beginning of the experiment report, it would be good to output the following information:
Model file name;
Number of Scenarios;
Number of Replication Per Scenario;
Warmup Time;
End Time;
Scenario Settings (the table as you see under the Experimenter panel);
4.
For group type of PFMs, it would be good to choose what statistics are included in the report. Now it seems only Group Average, Combined Graph and Individual Graphs are outputed. Sometimes we may also want Group Total, Group Maximum ect. And if we have dozens of individual objects in a group, we may not want to include all of them in the report. The group statistics would be good enough.
5.
It would be good to put Save Experimenter Tree and Load Experimenter Tree in the experiment. Thus we can view previous experiment results if the saved tree is loaded. This can be done in Tree Edit Window. But it might be easier if it is put in the GUI. And this is a nice example to use Flexsim tree files. (Before Anthony told me, I was not aware of the "Load Into Node..." and "Save Node As..." items under the Right-Click menu of tree windows.
6.
It would be good to have a way to organize the experimenter outputs by scenarios and replications. The way I am using is to create a directory same as the model name, and under the that directory, there are two levels of sub-directory. The first level is scenarios, the second level is replications. So if I have a model calls flexsimmodel, after the experimenter of 2 scenarios and 2 replications each, I will have a directory structure like this:
-flexsmmodel
-+1
---+1
---+2
-+2
---+1
---+2
There may be other ways to organize simulation results from replications. But it would be nice at least to provide the capability of creating directories without using C++ code.
These are just my suggestions. People may agree or disagree. Flexsim is far from perfect. But I think all of us would like to see a better and better Flexsim simulation software. With our help and the great efforts of Flexsim team, it will.
One bug exists when you View Results in Performance Measures. If your number is happen to be integer, the number will be displayed with hundreds of tailing 0s. For example, if it is 1, then you will see 1.0000000000000000000000... in both Performance Measurement window and the Experiment Report. See attached picture.
Here I have several suggestions:
1.
It would be good if we can choose only some of defined PFMs will go into report. This is good if you defined a lot of PFMs but some times you only want to report part of them.
2.
It would be good if we can choose only output graphics, and/or raw data.
3.
At the beginning of the experiment report, it would be good to output the following information:
Model file name;
Number of Scenarios;
Number of Replication Per Scenario;
Warmup Time;
End Time;
Scenario Settings (the table as you see under the Experimenter panel);
4.
For group type of PFMs, it would be good to choose what statistics are included in the report. Now it seems only Group Average, Combined Graph and Individual Graphs are outputed. Sometimes we may also want Group Total, Group Maximum ect. And if we have dozens of individual objects in a group, we may not want to include all of them in the report. The group statistics would be good enough.
5.
It would be good to put Save Experimenter Tree and Load Experimenter Tree in the experiment. Thus we can view previous experiment results if the saved tree is loaded. This can be done in Tree Edit Window. But it might be easier if it is put in the GUI. And this is a nice example to use Flexsim tree files. (Before Anthony told me, I was not aware of the "Load Into Node..." and "Save Node As..." items under the Right-Click menu of tree windows.
6.
It would be good to have a way to organize the experimenter outputs by scenarios and replications. The way I am using is to create a directory same as the model name, and under the that directory, there are two levels of sub-directory. The first level is scenarios, the second level is replications. So if I have a model calls flexsimmodel, after the experimenter of 2 scenarios and 2 replications each, I will have a directory structure like this:
-flexsmmodel
-+1
---+1
---+2
-+2
---+1
---+2
There may be other ways to organize simulation results from replications. But it would be nice at least to provide the capability of creating directories without using C++ code.
These are just my suggestions. People may agree or disagree. Flexsim is far from perfect. But I think all of us would like to see a better and better Flexsim simulation software. With our help and the great efforts of Flexsim team, it will.