FSSIM GUI

Eelco Meuter and Sander JanssenWageningen university

Specifications FSSIM

Generic model: designed with the aim to be applied to any farming system in the EU25.

Modular system in order to easily activate or deactivate modules according to regions and conditions.

Static model: one decision period (i.e. one year); A positive model: exploit the observed behaviour of economic agents; Risk programming model taking into account the risk according to the

Mean-Standard deviation method; Calibration: a calibration procedure based on three possible

approaches (risk, random cost variation and PMP) or both of them. Trend analysis: exogenous assumptions are made for producer prices.

Aim FSSIM-GUI

• Easy and intuitive to use

• Focus on model use, not on model development

• Extendable and scalable

• Web application

Identify the user

• Researcher/ MSc student

• Little or no experience in bio-economic modeling

• Frequent re-using model components with different settings: regions, farm types, environmental zones, soil types, policy parameters, agro-management parameters, etc ...

• You?

Challenges…

• Appealing to the user; promotes reuse

• Present something complex simple…

• Define simple and intuitive?

• How to maintain the scalability and extendibility?

• Data management

• Many, many more …

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• Save model experiments per user

• Monitor use

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Navigation bar to indicate the

initialization steps, present step and competed steps

Form to define a name and the

assumptions for a model run

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Component list.Enables valid component

combinations based upon user selection

Explanation of selected

component

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Select a defined production orientation

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Create your own production orientation

Help

Selection screens for different

components of an agri-environmental

zone

Adaptive list, enables only valid

combinationsSearch field

Information button for information about valid agri-

environmental zones

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Adaptive list, shows only crops in selected agri-environmental

zones

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MP parameter tables.

User is able to change values

against a base value

Help

Clear help screen about the concepts and a how-to per initialization step

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Output: exportable files

• XML of important variables

• GAMS gdx file for MP

• What would you like to have as output? Post your ideas!

Road map to first release

• MP testing (March)

• PTG testing (April)

• User model testing (April-May)

• MP Output screens (April)

• Documentation (March/April)

• Release (end Spring/ early Summer)

fssim@seamless-ip.org