Environmental Modelling at Nottingham

ModelMaker

ModelMaker was orginally developed at Nottingham by Andrew Walker and Neil Crout. We won the 'Business Software Challenge' with it in 1993 (and actually had one of those big cardboard cheques, physically big that is, not enough to reture on!)

The original idea was to allow us to undertake the kind of applied work we had within the group (i.e. lots of compartment style models, differential equations that required non-linear parameterisation) without needing specific programming skills.

We still use it, albeit mainly in teaching applications. For most of our research work we are using our own OpenModel package or more heavy duty packages such as MatLab, or even sometimes writing our own code!

The software was subsequently commercialised and there is now no contact between the company who own the software and the University.

Information on the current commercially available versions of ModelMaker can be found at:

www.modelkinetix.com/modelmaker