Abstract for: SDM-Doc: The System Dynamics Model Documentation and Assessment Tool

To improve model transparency through enhanced documentation and assessment, scientists at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) engineered the System Dynamics Model Documentation and Assessment Tool (SDM-Doc) that enables modelers to create practical, efficient, HTML-based model documentation that also provides customizable model assessments and analysis. The model documentation created by the SDM-Doc tool allows modelers to navigate through model equations and model views in an efficient and practical way creating documentation of the model organized and sorted by variable name, type of variable, group, view, module, module/group/name, and variable of interest. Additionally, model tests are performed allowing modelers and reviewers of models to increase their confidence in fundamental characteristics of model structure. The latest version of the documentation and assessment tool, its use, and the different assessments included in the tool will be presented and explained. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptops to be able to use the tool during the workshop. The tool is accessible at https://www.systemdynamics.org/SDM-doc.