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

To increase model transparency through detailed and enhanced model 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 in many ways. Additionally, to increase confidence in fundamental characteristics of model structure, several different structural tests are performed. The latest version of the documentation and assessment tool, its use, and the different assessments included in the current version of 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.