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About Vensim

Vensim is a visual modeling tool that allows you to conceptualize, document, simulate, analyze, and optimize models of dynamic systems.  Vensim provides a simple and flexible way of building simulation models from causal loop or stock and flow diagrams.  

By connecting words with arrows, relationships among system variables are entered and recorded as causal connections.  This information is used by the Equation Editor to help you form a complete simulation model.  You can analyze your model throughout the building process, looking at the causes and uses of a variable, and also at the loops involving the variable.  When you have built a model that can be simulated, Vensim lets you thoroughly explore the behavior of the model.