Molly reborn in C++ and R

The dairy cow model ‘Molly’ is a mixed discrete event-continuous system model that simulates feeding, metabolism and lactation of dairy cows. Decades of model development have resulted in a valuable tool in dairy science. Due to the deprecation of the ACSL (Advanced Continuous Simulation Language) p...

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Published inAnimal (Cambridge, England) Vol. 14; no. S2; pp. s250 - s256
Main Authors Woodward, S. J. R., Beukes, P. C., Hanigan, M. D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.08.2020
Elsevier Limited
Elsevier
Subjects
Advanced Continuous Simulation Language
Advances in modelling methodology
Algorithms
C plus plus
C++ (programming language)
Computer simulation
dynamic model
Dynamical systems
Lactation
Language
Libraries
metabolic model
Metabolism
Ordinary differential equations
Programming environments
Research Article
RStudio
Simulation
Variables
RStudio
Advanced Continuous Simulation Language
dynamic model
simulation
metabolic model
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Summary:The dairy cow model ‘Molly’ is a mixed discrete event-continuous system model that simulates feeding, metabolism and lactation of dairy cows. Decades of model development have resulted in a valuable tool in dairy science. Due to the deprecation of the ACSL (Advanced Continuous Simulation Language) programming language, Molly has been translated into C++. This paper describes the translation process and discusses the advantages of the new implementation, one of which is the ability to run Molly within RStudio, a popular integrated development environment (IDE) for data science.
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ISSN:1751-7311
1751-732X
DOI:10.1017/S1751731120000270