Interactive graphical user interfaces for simulated systems
Systems, computer program products, and computer-implemented methods for visualizing and interacting with a plurality of models that collectively represent a real-world system depicted in a graphical user interface. The system described herein may generate an interactive graphical user interface with multiple modes and a plurality of panels associated with the plurality of models. These panels and modes lay the framework for how a user can properly visualize and analyze the models at a particular point in time or over a period of time. The systems, computer program products, and computer-implemented methods may thus, according to various embodiments, enable a plurality of models that collectively represent a real-world system be interacted with and visualized by a graphical user interface.
1. A computer-implemented method for visualizing and interacting with a plurality of models and an interactive graphical user interface, the computer-implemented method comprising, by one or more hardware processors executing program instructions:
providing an interactive graphical user interface including:
a plurality of nodes and indications of relationships among the plurality of nodes, and
a user interface element for selecting a point in time;
receiving a selection of a point in time;
accessing one or more models associated with one or more of the plurality of nodes;
accessing time-based data associated with the one or more of the plurality of nodes and useable in the corresponding one or more models;
simulating the one or more models using the associated time-based data to determine property values associated with the one or more of the plurality of nodes; and
based on results of the simulating and the selected point in time, altering an appearance of the one or more of the plurality of nodes.
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising, by the one or more hardware processors executing program instructions:
in response to receiving a user input:
adding a node to the user interface that is related to a selected node, and
adding an indication of a relationship between the added node and the selected node.
3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising, by the one or more hardware processors executing program instructions:
in response to receiving a user input:
causing display of a chart showing the accessed time-based data.
4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user interface further includes:
a histogram displaying properties common among one or more selected nodes of the plurality of nodes.
5. The computer-implemented method of claim 4 further comprising, by the one or more hardware processors executing program instructions:
in response to receiving a user input via the histogram:
updating the user interface to indicate a selection of the plurality of nodes corresponding to the user input.
6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising, by the one or more hardware processors executing program instructions:
in response to receiving a user input:
grouping one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes into a single node in the user interface.
7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising, by the one or more hardware processors executing program instructions:
in response to receiving a user input:
creating a subgraph comprising one or more nodes; and
displaying the subgraph as a single node in the user interface.
8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein altering the appearance of the one or more of the plurality of nodes comprises at least one or: coloring or highlighting.
9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the appearance of the one or more of the plurality of nodes is further altered based on at least one of: one or more rules or time-based data associated with the one or more of the plurality of nodes.
10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising, by the one or more hardware processors executing program instructions:
displaying alerts associated with one or more of the nodes, wherein the alerts are based on at least one of: one or more rules or time-based data associated with the one or more of the plurality of nodes.
11. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising, by the one or more hardware processors executing program instructions:
displaying, adjacent to respective nodes, sensor data readouts associated with one or more of the plurality of nodes.
12. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising, by the one or more hardware processors executing program instructions:
receive user inputs specifying one or more models, one or more inputs, and one or more outputs; and
in response to receiving the user inputs:
executing a second simulation associated with one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes; and
causing display of a result of the second simulation.
13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12 further comprising, by the one or more hardware processors executing program instructions:
causing display of a comparison between two or more simulations including at least the second simulation.
14. The computer-implemented method of claim 12 further comprising, by the one or more hardware processors executing program instructions:
determining and displaying updates to altered appearances of nodes based on the result of the second simulation.
15. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising, by the one or more hardware processors executing program instructions:
displaying movement of items among the plurality of nodes based at least in part on the accessed time-based data.
16. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising:
in response to receiving a user input associated with a node:
linking from the user interface to another related interactive graphical user interface of another type to display information associated with the node.
17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 , wherein the linking includes linking to a panel-based interactive graphical user interface that displays details of alerts associated with the node.
18. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , wherein the user interface is at least one of: graph-based or map-based.
19. A system comprising:
a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith; and one or more processors configured to execute the program instructions to cause the system to perform the computer-implemented method of claim 1 .
20. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to perform the computer-implemented method of claim 1 .