The Design and Construction of an Ecosystem Simulation Workbench

Abstract

Abstract Efforts to study ecosystems have been carried out by humans since ancient times in various ways or approaches. The approach of using a computer model and simulation nowadays is one of the increasingly possible alternatives, especially with the rapid advancement of information and communication technology. There are several ways to build computer models of an ecosystem to be used in simulations. Composite modeling is one method that can be used where several computer programs (main, sub-routines, functions, sub-programs) written using a procedural programming language, which as a whole are integrated into one final program that can be run on a computer. The approach in this research is different from what was explained earlier. Composite models are still used but each component of the model is kept separate which is not combined into one module when the simulation process of the ecosystem model is formed. Each module remains separate but will operate side by side and communicate with one another through an auxiliary module to allow conditions to work (Molenaar, 1998). This research was conducted to make a prototype of a composite computer simulation infrastructure model of an ecosystem. The outputs of this research proved that the approach seemed working well and able to be used as computer simulation infrastructure in studying various existing system start your abstract here.