SIMPROCESS for Windows and Linux Release 5.2 Copyright (c) 2014 CACI, INC.-FEDERAL Release Notes Subjects Covered in this Document: Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 5.2 Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 5.1 Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 5.0.1 Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 5.0 Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.9.1 Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.9 Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.8 Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.7 Fixes in Release 4.6.1 New and Improved Features in Release 4.6 Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.5.1 Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.5 New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.4 SIMPROCESS Technical Support ------------------------------------------------- Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 5.2 ------------------------------------------------- 1. Directories requiring write access (SPUser, models, metamodel, orgmodel, dashboardserver, and timeserver) are installed to a directory within the user's home directory. See the section SIMPROCESS Working Directory in Chapter 2 of the SIMPROCESS Getting Started Manual for more information. 2. Help is now HTML based so it displays in a web browser. 3. The User’s Manual was separated into four files. The links between chapters that are now in different files are still valid. 4. All comment fields can now have active hyper links. (See Common Activity Input Fields in Chapter 2 of Part A of the User’s Manual.) 5. Model verification was significantly expanded. (See Verify Model under Simulate Menu in Chapter 1 of Part A of the User’s Manual.) 6. Updated Experiment Manager to use predefined Scenarios (from Simulate menu) and removed Publish Model to HTML from the Experiment Manager. 7. Capacity Cost is now referred to as Variable Cost. 8. Define Real-Time Plots was changed to Real-Time Plots and was consolidated so all real-time plots can be defined from the same dialog. 9. The Time Stamp real-time plots definition were moved from the Time Stamp properties to Real-Time Plots. 10. Meter and Thermometer real-time plots were added to Attributes. 11. View Simulation Results is now on the Report menu. This allows all simulation results to be viewed in tabular format. Also, the results can be saved to a .cvs or .xls file, and the results can be viewed with charts. See Chapter 8 of Part A of the User’s Manual for a full discussion. 12. Statistics for Activities and Connectors can be accessed by right clicking on an Activity or Connector and choosing View Results. This menu item is only active if statistics were collected for the Activity or Connector. View Results functions in the same way as View Simulation Results but it is only the results for that Activity or Connector. 13. Gantt charts of the Activities and Processes in a model can be created after a simulation completes. This new Report menu option is available if Collect Activity Statistics or Collect Activity by Entity Statistics is selected in Define Global Statistics Collection. See Chapter 6 of Part A of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for a full discussion. 14. New expression statements added: OpenApplication, DeactivateGenerate, and SetStartEnd. See Appendix F of the User's Manual for descriptions. 15. Expression editor was updated to correctly handle nested Parent system attributes. 16. Attributes with an array size greater than zero now properly create real-time plots. 17. Attribute real-time plots were added to Custom Reports. 18. ReadFromSpreadsheet expression statement was updated to convert date and time in Excel Workbooks to a date/time string. The conversion only occurs if the variable receiving the date/time is of type String. Also, numbers in text cells must be read into a numeric variable or SIMPROCESS will attempt the date/time conversion. 19. Distributions from the Apache Commons Math library were added to the distribution list. These are not distributions new to SIMPROCESS but different implementations of already existing distributions. See Appendix D of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for a list. 20. The BPMN icon collection was expanded. 21. The default icon set for Processes/Activities can be specified in the Preferences. 22. The default icon set for Entities and default icon size can be specified on the new Entities tab in the Preferences. 23. Menu items that also have corresponding tool bar buttons now include the same icon as the associated button. 24. A Save button was added to the Expression Editor. Expressions can now be saved to a text file. 25. A Suppress Warnings option was added to AutoFit properties. When selected the warning that the default distribution will be used if there is an error during the distribution fitting is not displayed. 26. The File menu now includes Open Directory. It includes six items: Installation, Working, Models, Metamodel, OrgModel, and SPUser. Selecting one of these items opens the system file explorer to that directory. 27. Minor bugs relating to the Expression statements InterruptActivity and InterruptEntity have been corrected. 28. View button on the distribution details dialog was updated so details cannot be viewed for File, Spreadsheet, and Database input sources. 29. Fixed error in Simulation Results export that caused cost element names to be missing for replications greater than 1. 30. Updated the format of cost results in Simulation Results export to display the category of cost (Activity by Entity, Resource by Entity, or Resource by Activity) along with the cost period. Changed the statistic type to display the cost type (Variable or Absorption). ------------------------------------------------- Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 5.1 ------------------------------------------------- 1. Licensing updated. New license file will be required since the licensing is now associated to the version of SIMPROCESS. 2. Windows 8 compatible (Desktop screen). 3. If a Master Process is stored as a template, changes to the template can be applied to models that have instances of the template. 4. Can search activity and connector trees when selecting values for reporting or plotting. Includes Find All option that allows groups of activities or connectors to be selected. Combinations of activities and processes in the search result are not allowed since the available statistics are different. 5. New Expression statements SetResourceShift, SetRandomNumberOption, GetEntityBySequenceNum, CreateActivityMap, InterruptActivity, and InterruptEntity were added. A new ExpressionDemos model InterruptDemo.spm demonstrates the use of InterruptActivity and InterruptEntity. 6. Text Labels can be multiple lines and can be aligned left, center, or right. 7. Some new BPMN icons were added. 8. Run Settings now includes option to use Mersenne Twister random number generator. 9. Pools with Lanes can be added to layouts. As with Swimlanes, Pools are graphical only and have no impact on the simulation. The AddVendor.spm model in the Demos directory shows the use of Pools. 10. Added Activity System Attribute Type. This System Attribute returns the type of an Activity (Delay, Generate, etc.). 11. The new Entity System Attributes InBatch, Processing, HoldingForCondition, and WaitingForResource give the state of an Entity instance. 12. The bin width can be set for Histogram plots. 13. The display of Activity counts can be customized. Counts can be turned off for a particular Activity, the color can be set, and an optional vertical bar can be displayed. In addition, some Activities can display counts based on state (waiting for resources, holding for a condition, or processing). 14. Borders are now options for charts in Custom Reports. 15. New distribution, PertBeta, added to SIMPROCESS Distribution List. 16. Model properties (File/Properties) updated to show the version and build of SIMPROCESS that last saved the model. 17. GetAttributeValue expression statement improved. Now returns the value of System Attributes. 18. Attribute validation in the Expression Editor was improved to eliminate false errors. 19. Fixed some issues with templates related to using Group Id. 20. Fixed copy/paste to ensure that a copy of a Master Process cannot be pasted into any Master Process. 21. Custom Reports were updated to properly handle Metamodels, Swimlanes, and Pools. 22. POWER Expression statement now returns the correct value when a part of a mathematical equation. 23. Corrected error in AutoFit properties dialog that caused program freeze when database data source was unavailable. 24. Fixed problem with CreateAttribute expression statement that prevented the creation of OBJECT Attributes. 25. INCLUDE expression statement now works in Functions. --------------------------------------------------- Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 5.0.1 --------------------------------------------------- 1. Fixed errors with Attribute validation in Expression Editor. Added option on Edit menu of Expression Editor to turn Attribute validation on/off. 2. Corrected error in OpenDatabase expression statement that prohibited opening a database connection using a DSN. 3. Added System Attributes for Transfer Activity. 4. Added Master Process feature. This feature allows a Process to be marked as a Master Process. Copies of a Master Process pasted in the same model are linked to the Master Process and can be updated to reflect changes in the Master Process. See Chapter 2 of the User's Manual for more information. 5. XPDL import and export updated to include more SIMPROCESS specific information. 6. Updated URL/File reference on Documentation tab of Activity properties to check model folder for referenced file. 7. Corrected error MS Project export that could lead to program freeze. ------------------------------------------------- Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 5.0 ------------------------------------------------- 1. SIMPROCESS Java upgraded to Java 7. 2. Remote transfer capability added to the Transfer Activity. 3. SIMPROCESS now offers appearance options: the default System look, the Metal look, and the Nimbus look. 4. Template libraries can be set to be automatically loaded at start up. 5. There is now an initialization screen when a simulation starts and a completion screen when a simulation ends. 6. The Function expression statement now accepts parameters. 7. Added the UNDEFINED object for expressions. This is similar to null in Java and other languages. Can be used with expression statements that return an Object. 8. New expression statement INPUT allows user input during simulation. Unlike READ, the message is configurable and there is type checking of the input value. 9. Expression editor font size is now saved across SIMPROCESS sessions. 10. Expression editor updated to validate Attribute names in expressions. 11. Majority of dialogs updated to allow the Enter key to OK a dialog and the Escape key to Cancel a dialog. 12. Connector properties now allow the starting and/or ending points to change without deleting and recreating the connector. 13. Improved the undo to include the undo of the addition of activities and connectors, connector moves, and pastes. 14. A connector associated with a Process can now take the name of the Process pad. 15. Improved BREAKPOINT to allow stepping through an expression. Also, detail on specific items can be viewed. 16. Added HasParent System Attribute for Activities. 17. Publish to HTML updated to include metadata in Activity, Connector, Entity, and Resource properties. 18. Org Nodes from assigned OrgModels can now be assigned to swimlanes. 19. New cost categories Org Node by Resource and Org Node Cumulative Costs are available when Resources from assigned OrgModels have cost defined. 20. Corrected error in Weekly generation schedule that occurred when only two consecutive days were selected. 21. Modified Run Settings to ensure that the number of replications is 1 or more. 22. Fixed the Auto Label feature of Branch Connectors to properly handle branching by Entity Type, Largest Value, and Smallest Value. 23. Modified Gate Activity to ensure hold status is removed from Entities upon release. 24. Corrected some dialog alignment problems in the Linux version. 25. Updated the expression statements MapKeyExits, ReleaseEntity, and GetNext to correctly return a Boolean value when embedded in another expression statement. 26. Corrected problem that prevented Entities from properly obtaining Resources when the Resource requests were different by Entity and multiple Resources were needed. 27. Fixed the calculation of confidence intervals for total costs. 28. Updated the run simulation sequence to not only allow the setting of model parameters but also to set the active alternative sub-process of Processes with multiple sub-processes. 29. Weekly downtime schedule and weekly generation schedule changed to allow parameterization of the start and end times for each selected day. 30. Corrected display of Resource downtime and shift schedules in custom reports. 31. Fixed error that caused incorrect layout views to be output when exporting to PDF or RTF. 32. Local instance of Time Server can now be started from the Tools/Remote menu. 33. XPDL import and export updated to XPDL 2.2. --------------------------------------------------- Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.9.1 --------------------------------------------------- 1. Entities will once again traverse connectors when replaying animation which has been recorded. 2. Currencies on the Cost Periods tab of Run Settings are now selected from a list of currencies specified in ISO 4217. 3. Locale issues which prevented correct display of some numbers according to the user's actual non-U.S. location have been corrected. In addition, Resource Capacity values in the Standard Report have been changed to use the Locale instead of ignoring it entirely. 4. SPServer now has an additional method which supports setting attributes on generated Entities. A new example Java application, ExternalAttributes, has been added to the SampleFiles directory in SPUser to demonstrate this. "Adding an External Schedule" in Chapter 11 of the SIMPROCESS User Manual has been updated to address this change, along with the description of the External Schedule Model in the Getting Started Manual. 5. Adding a template to a Library when any Process used the Process Ordering feature now works correctly. Note that Process Ordering information is not placed into the Library and therefore will not apply when the template is used. 6. Using a any of the various types of user-defined distributions (e.g., Function, AutoFit Distribution, Input Sources, etc.) in the Maximum Wait for Resource Time on the Resources tab for an activity prevented the referenced item from getting included when the activity was part of a new template being added to a Library. This error has been corrected. However, in order for the model to be internally consistent, it may be necessary to edit the properties (without necessarily taking any action) to force a change. ------------------------------------------------- Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.9 ------------------------------------------------- 1. The Branch Activity now includes two new branching options: Smallest Value and Largest Value. See the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more information. 2. ModelFit, which is the basis of the AutoFits feature, is now available to all users without the purchase of an additional license. 3. The Expression language includes a new BREAKPOINT statement, which pauses simulation and displays simulation and model status. See Appendix F of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more information. 4. The Text Block available on an Activity or Process is no longer limited to three lines of text. Instead, text is now entered free form and automatically centered when displayed. 5. The Expression statements which provide database access have been enhanced to improve memory management. A new Expression statement, DisposeResultSet, has also been added to help further that goal. 6. The Icon Preview dialog has been improved to display the default icon size for Activities and to allow icon size to be modified for Entities. 7. To provide an enhanced look, a series of new Icon sets have been added for both Activities and Entities. Some of the older icons have been moved into "Legacy" sets but remain available. 8. Custom Reports have been updated to ensure proper report header display and to ensure the inclusion of Real-Time Plots and Attribute statistics. 9. Handling of Resource downtimes has been corrected to ensure that the correct number of resources go down when requested. 10. A new System Attribute called FilePath has been added which returns the complete path to the model's own directory, to include the trailing separator (slash or backslash, according to platform). ------------------------------------------------- Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.8 ------------------------------------------------- 1. Resources obtained with the GetResource expression statement now ensure that unused Resource requests are removed when an Entity exits an Activity. 2. Custom Reports now handle Time Stamp statistics. 3. The color Sandybrown has been corrected to SandyBrown to match documentation. 4. The POWER expression statement has been corrected to return a value. 5. SIMPROCESS can now import and export Microsoft Project files. 6. SIMPROCESS now provides the ability to create and run Scenarios for analysis and reporting. A Scenario includes Run Settings, Model Parameters, Process alternatives, global statistics, and selected statistics. Saved Scenario results can be compared using Scenario Reports. See Chapter 19 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for a complete description. 7. The ExternalCall function now better supports external Java code, allowing the explicit invocation of constructors, calling methods on class instances stored in Attributes, and the use of classes without constructors that act as factories or provide only static methods. See Appendix F of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for further information. ------------------------------------------------- Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.7 ------------------------------------------------- 1. SIMPROCESS now includes Java SE 6, bringing improvements in numerous areas including overall performance. In addition, it now uses JAX-WS for all Web Services features, replacing the older JAX-RPC technology. 2. The View>Activities menu includes a new "By Attribute" item. This improves the ability to find Activities where global Attributes are used. 3. A new UpdateBackgroundGraphic expression statement allows changing a background graphic during simulation. 4. The FlexNet Publisher software used by SIMPROCESS has been updated so that its Linux support is certified against Linux System Base (LSB) 3.0. This will allow SIMPROCESS to be run on a wider range of Linux distributions than ever before. 5. The new InvokeWebService expression statement invokes an operation on a Web Service. This new statement is preferred over the older SOAPCall statement, which supported an old style of Web Service that's now rare. 6. Model Attributes can now be used to specify Resource requirements for Activities. See "Varying Resources" in Chapter 10 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for additional information. 7. Extracting bundle files is now supported when using a SIMPROCESS Runtime Edition license. If a bundle is extracted while a model is open, the attempt to open it afterward will still fail since this license only allows a single model to be open at any time. 8. Numerous other fixes and enhancements were made throughout SIMPROCESS. ---------------------------------------- Fixes in Release 4.6.1 ---------------------------------------- 1. An error in the SIMPROCESS Database which prevented simulation results from being put into the database has been corrected. 2. The Report Viewer now properly displays Activity statistics in the Standard Report. 3. The Activity Properties Viewer now displays Functions, User-defined Distributions, and Input Sources when used as Activity duration. 4. A problem that prevented models from running outside the main SIMPROCESS application has been corrected. 5. The XPDL and WorkPoint exports no longer produce XML validation warnings. 6. Collect Model Metrics on the Tools menu now includes some model components added in recent SIMPROCESS releases. ---------------------------------------- New and Improved Features in Release 4.6 ---------------------------------------- 1. Publishing models to HTML now includes the text of expressions contained in external files. 2. When using Distribute Pads on the Layout menu, the order of Pads along each of an Activity's borders will now be retained. 3. SIMPROCESS now has a new Report Viewer offering the ability to control how the content is displayed, saving to numerous formats, printing on request and much more. In addition, some existing features now send their output to the Report Viewer, including the Standard Report and Optimization Report. 4. SIMPROCESS Reporting is greatly enhanced with the new Custom Reports. Patterned in large part on the Custom Plot features, you can now create Custom Reports for a wide range of values available within any model. These reports can be displayed using the new Report Viewer, then printed or saved in a variety of ways. See Chapter 18 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for details. 5. SIMPROCESS models now support Resource Shifts to specify when Resources will be available. Statistics are available for Resource Shifts, and they can be placed into Libraries for reuse in other models. See Chapter 11 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for details. 6. SIMPROCESS models now allow you to exercise control over the traversal order of sub-processes when a model is output to any of several destinations, including publishing to HTML, exporting and printing. Refer to Chapter 1, Set Traversal Order..., in the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more. 7. SIMPROCESS models now allow you to specify process numbering so that each Process can have a number that will help identify it in output products. This is especially helpful when used in conjunction with traversal order controls already mentioned. See Chapter 1, Show Process Numbering, in the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more. 8. The Expression Editor has been greatly enhanced. It now offers controls to adjust the font size, supports syntax highlighting so that expression language keywords are in color, offers optional auto-completion to make writing expressions easier, and allows access to global Attribute definitions without leaving the Editor by using a new menu. See Chapter 10, Expression Editor, in the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more. 9. SIMPROCESS support for spreadsheets has been enhanced to include Excel 2007 workbooks (usually with the .xlsx extension) and to include the ability to read and evaluate spreadsheet cells containing formulas. 10. SIMPROCESS now includes a new OrgModel Editor which allows the creation and editing of SIMPROCESS Organization and Resource Models. These OrgModels let you describe an organizational structure to include Resources, and then assign OrgModels to SIMPROCESS models where the resources then become available. See the new OrgModel Manual for additional information. 11. SIMPROCESS now uses a tree view to select Resources in Resource Usage, Resource Downtimes, Resource Shifts and other locations where a Resource must be selected. This reflects the new ability to use resources obtained from an OrgModel as well as the SIMPROCESS model. 12. The Metamodel Editor now produces HTML Reports for metamodels. These are similar to published HTML in SIMPROCESS. The HTML Report is created for the metamodel being edited and for all other metamodels referenced by any Include data items, and properties of these data items link to those other HTML Reports. 13. When a SIMPROCESS model is published to HTML, the result now includes all metamodels assigned to the model, as well as other metamodels referenced by any Include data items in the metamodels themselves or in user-entered metadata. The properties of each Include data item will include a link to the metamodel referenced. 14. AutoFit Distributions were changed to allow a default distribution to be specified. This default distribution is used if an error occurs when fitting the data at simulation start. 15. Added INCLUDE, SetSimulationStartEnd, SetReplications, and SetWarmupLength expression statements. See Appendix F of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more information. 16. Input Sources now include End of Data Options to allow you to indicate what SIMPROCESS should do during a simulation when the end of a data source is encountered. 17. New real-time plots were added for Resources: Availability Trace, Availability Histogram, Scheduled Availability Trace, and Scheduled Availability Histogram. The Availability plots are a combination of idle, busy, and reserved units, and the Scheduled Availability plots are a combination of idle, busy, reserved, and unplanned downtime units. --------------------------------------------------- Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.5.1 --------------------------------------------------- 1. Corrected error that attempted to create statistical monitors for Attributes with a mode other than INTEGER or REAL. In addition, disabled selection of statistical reports or plots for STRING, BOOLEAN, and OBJECT Attributes. 2. Added implementation of System Attributes TransformEntityType and BatchEntityType. 3. Changed Activity processing to ensure that Activities with a delay duration of None do not attempt to obtain Resources. 4. Improved Entity premption to properly handle simultaneous preemption, get resource, and free resource events. 5. Improved Expression language error messages. ------------------------------------------------- Fixes and New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.5 ------------------------------------------------- 1. Corrected several issues related to metamodels and metadata. 2. Changed Expression error handling to ensure optimizations stop when Expression errors occur. 3. Changed optimization setup to only check step size for Integer decision variables. 4. Corrected problem with optimization setup that caused process alternative selections to be lost. 5. Modified Publish to HTML to make sure that all Generate Schedules of a Generate Activity are published. 6. Icon Manager changed to correctly handle duplicate names from model-owned and SIMPROCESS-owned images. 7. Improved handling of the NOT logical operator in Expressions. 8. Tightened rules governing which menu items and/or tools are disabled during a running simulation in order to prevent error conditions. 9. Previously, a higher priority Entity could only preempt a lower priority Entity that was at the same Activity. Changed Entity preemption to allow a higher priority Entity to preempt a lower priority Entity anywhere in the model. 10. SIMPROCESS models can be exported to PowerPoint compatible files. 11. Added the ability to set Attributes on a Spreadsheet generation schedule, reducing the need to use Expressions. See Chapter 11 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more information. 12. Added new Database generation schedule. Allows Entities to be generated and Attributes to be set from an SQL database. See Chapter 11 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more information. 13. Enhanced Batch Activity to create batches based on common values of Attributes, Entity Type, or Priority. 14. Connections to external data sources can be created by defining File, Spreadsheet, or Database Input Sources. Input Sources appear in the SIMPROCESS distribution list. See Chapter 3 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more information. 15. Created collection of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) metamodels that can be used to include BPEL metadata in a model; also enhanced metamodel handling to allow nesting of directories within the "metamodel" directory. 16. New Bundling features allow the creation of a model bundle file and extraction from a bundle file as an improved method of gathering all model related artifacts for exchange with other SIMPROCESS users. A bundle file contains a SIMPROCESS model along with the model’s directory and any associated metamodels and Dashboards. See Chapter 17 of the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for details. 17. The SPUser/SampleFiles/BPMN directory contains a Library of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) BPMN Activity and Process templates. Instructions for importing the Library are located in that directory. 18. Corrected a problem when editing Resources which caused links to Global Resource Downtimes to be lost. 19. Corrected an error which resulted in the state of the All Entities checkbox not to be retained when editing Event Logs. 20. When editing a Local Send Transfer, the opposite end must now be in an active alternative subprocess. 21. When duplicating a Process Alternative, Transfer Activities are checked to correctly update references when both the Local Send and Local Receive are contained in the Alternative being copied. --------------------------------------- New Features in SIMPROCESS Release 4.4 --------------------------------------- 1. SIMPROCESS now includes Java SE 5, which brings improvements in numerous areas including performance and memory management. 2. A new "Open Recent" menu on the File menu provides cleaner access to the list of recently opened SIMPROCESS models; it also provides a convenient way of clearing the list at any time. 3. A new menu item now makes it possible to stop an RMI Registry previously started inside SIMPROCESS. 4. Image files for use as icons or backgrounds can now be owned by a single SIMPROCESS model. This will make it easier than ever before to share models between users without the need to export custom images or exchange copies of UserFiles.jar between users. See the SIMPROCESS User's Manual for more information, and the Network example model in the Demos directory. 5. Java code for use in the ExternalCall Expression Language statement can now be located in the model's own directory, even in Java Archive (JAR) files. This will make it even easier to share models which take advantage of this powerful advanced feature of SIMPROCESS. A sample model named ExternalCall is included in the ExpressionDemos directory (this feature requires purchasing an add-on license). 6. A new Metamodel Editor allows creation of Metamodels which can then be assigned to SIMPROCESS models to support adding user-defined Metadata. See the new SIMPROCESS Metadata Manual for details. 7. A number of new Expression Language statements have been added to make SIMPROCESS even more powerful. New statements include: ABS CreateEntityType SetEntityExpression, SetEntityTypeExpression, Attribute, CreateAttribute SetActivityExpression, BINARYTOINT INTTOBINARY 8. The GenerateEntity Expression Language statement now supports an optional time parameter to indicate when Entity generation should occur. 9. An optional "badge" can now be displayed on a Process to provide a visual indication of whether its active alternative sub-process contains any Processes or Activities. 10. A new "Continental USA" map is included with the built-in images provided for use as Background Graphics. In addition, the dialog for selecting these images now has a Preview button, allowing you to see a full-size view of the image before using it in a model. 11. Numerous enhancements have been made in Dashboards to take advantage of appearance improvements accompanying a newer release of JFreeChart. 12. A newer release of ExpertFit (Windows installations only) is included, and the old ExpertFitGuide.pdf removed in favor of the one included with it. 13. The ExpressionDemos directory previously offered as a download is now included when installing SIMPROCESS. It includes numerous models which show how some of the advanced features of SIMPROCESS can be used. 14. SIMPROCESS now supports external management of simulation time using the new TimeServer, making it possible for multiple SIMPROCESS models (and possibly other applications) to coordinate their actions. ---------------------------- SIMPROCESS Technical Support ---------------------------- Please contact SIMPROCESS Technical Support Manager at: Phone number (703) 679-3340 Fax number (703) 679-3354 e-mail address simprocess@caci.com