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GENERAL PRESENTATION OF
JUZZLE
GENERALITIES
This section is dedicated to a general
presentation of JUZZLE.
JUZZLE is a freeware written in full JAVA,
that makes it fully portable from one
environment to another.
JUZZLE is an integrated simulator design and
exploitation tool applicable to any domain. A
simulation has only to be designed as data
exchanged between modules, each module
performing a specific process.
In JUZZLE, data exchanged between modules
are seen as objects, an object being either a
Boolean, a number, a complex number, a
spectrum, or any other object related to a
specific technical area.
A module may be developed either using
JAVA, C, Fortran and MATLAB languages.
A final user is then able to define his own
simulator by connecting modules and tuning
module parameters. After its creation the
simulator can be exploited in three different
ways. The first method is a unitary basic
execution. The second method is a case study
where user defines precisely a list of cases
(parameters of cases are known precisely).
This method leads to exhaustive lists of
results. The third method is a statistic study
where input parameters can be defined using
random laws. Using this method, the study
outputs are synthetic statistic results
computed using every simulation run.
These simulations can be done on local
machine, in a batch or using network
connected machines, this last case
corresponding to an independent case study.
Many other functions are provided in order to
secure and share simulation data:
• User management supporting profile
definition.
• Version management of all data (including
simulation runs with parameters and
results) using repositories. For each
simulation executed, parameters, results
and reports can be saved.
• Full shared environment for tips exchange
between JUZZLE users.
General Graphic User Interface of JUZZLE is
as follows
Figure 1 : General JUZZLE Graphic User
Interface
SIMULATION TOOLS
Hereafter list provides general functions
allowing to elaborate a simulation tool with
JUZZLE:
• Simple formula simulator computing
results directly from mathematical formulas
with input parameters.
• Development of a specific simulator via
direct coding. JUZZLE is then considered
as an integrated development environment.
Supported languages are Java, C, Fortran
and MATLAB. User is responsible for
writing algorithm codes and JUZZLE
generates automatically code permitting to
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