A new graphical modeling plugin based on Forrester diagrams for the RECORD platform

Using graphic user interfaces facilitates modeling work.Different types of diagrams exist to represent complex dynamic systems.The plugin allows translating Forrester diagram to DEVS ordinary differential equation. RECORD is a modeling and simulation platform with VLE as the main software that combines different forms of equations to represent agrosystem functioning. Although RECORD has a graphic user interface based on box-and-arrow diagrams to develop models, members of modeling communities who prefer Forrester diagrams may become disoriented when using RECORD. To help them, we developed a plugin that displays models as Forrester diagrams and translates them into DEVS formalism.