The Kappa Simulator Made Interactive

Abstract

Like during software development, interactivity is of tremendous help during model development. The more and the earlier feedback come, the more efficiently the target is reached. This is true for human as well as during mechanical model construction. If you try to mechanically learn some parameters for a model by streaming potential values for example, you would better stop as quickly as possible the simulations that behave the worst toward the goal. The Kappa simulator KaSim has been refactored to give the control to the user (human or an other program) during the simulation, allowing to pause, restart, observe, modify, prematurely stop, continue after the original end. Interventions on a simulation that can be offered as well as their consequences on the design of a stochastic simulator of rule-based models are describe here.