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Ecolego is a powerful and flexible software tool for creating dynamic models and performing deterministic or probabilistic simulations. Ecolego can be used for conducting risk assessments of complex dynamic systems evolving over time with any number of species. Ecolego has specialised databases and other add-ons designed for the field of radiological risk assessment.
The graphical user interface helps the user to define and manage building blocks, parameters, species and simulation settings. Ecolego also helps to create reports, to plot simulation results, to perform probabilistic simulations and sensitivity analysis.
Ecolego Player is a free software for making assessments using models created with Ecolego. This way you can distribute your Ecolego models to customers and colleagues.
Ecolego Player features the same functionality as Ecolego, with the exception that the model structure can not be changed.
The ODE toolbox feature powerful numerical solvers of ordinary differential equations. Both variable and fixed step size solvers are available, as well as solvers for stiff systems.
The Eikos Sensitivy Analysis Toolbox supports “state of the art” sensitivity analysis methods (local as well as global). Sensitivity analysis (SA) is used to assess the influence of model parameters on model predictions.
The Eikos Sensitivity toolbox is an optional fully integrated module for Ecolego and is thus most suitable for using with Ecolego models, although external models are also supported by exporting/importing samples of model inputs and/or model predictions.
Correlations between parameters may be induced by rank order correlation (method of Iman and Conover). The supported sampling techniques are: Monte carlo, Latin Hypercube and Quasi-random LPt. The SA methods included are:
Eikos provides a Graphical User Interface (GUI) which let you:
It is also possible to perform sensitivity analysis on groups of parameters (using extensions of the Sobol or EFAST methods). In this way the influence of each of the selected parameters as well as any combination of them is accounted for when computing the sensitivity indices on a given output.
The parameter database toolbox provides an interface to the parameter database.
The radionuclide toolbox features a database containing all nuclide isotopes and their decay constants and decay energies. It also contains the parent-daughter relationships between a radionuclide and its decay products.
When the radionuclide toolbox is used together with the ODE toolbox, Ecolego will automatically calculate ingrowth and decay for each state in the model.
The parameter database is a free product which can be set up to centralize and quality assure parameter data. Storing parameters in the parameter database assures that data is traceable and transparent.
Ecolego and its sub-products are platform independent and run on 32/64 bit Win2000/XP/Vista/7, MacOSX, Linux and Unix.
Ecolego has been sponsored by SSM, Sweden www.ssm.se and NRPA, Norway www.nrpa.no.
Eikos has been sponsored by Posiva OY https:www.posiva.fi/ and NRPA www.nrpa.no.
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