Welcome to SOFTSIM Project Home Page

1. Introduction

SOFTSIM is a communication and knowledge managment tool for enterprise software development. This system is derived from NSF project. It can support software requirement analysis and change management through business process automation, knowledge management, software simulation, and social network analysis.  

2. Features

The following are the key features of SOFTSIM in a nutshell:

• Support both collaboration and coordination.
• Knowledge managment functions such as document managment, expert recommendation, knowledge retirevial are embeded in the business process.
• Able to easily work with multiple projects at the same time.
• A large and growing repository of business processes and knowledge transfer tasks to use out of the box.
• Extensible, with the ability to easily write plugins in Java or scripting languages.
• Model based development: Communication and knowledge management are decribed based on the business process model.

3. Downloads

The SOFTSIM-Beta version has been released. You can download it here .

SOFTSIM is distributed under the  GNU General Public License .

 

4. Documents

Depending on how you'd like to use SOFTSIM, you can choose the documents from the following list:

• Use SOFTSIM
  Information for those who want to use SOFTSIM, including a "10 minute test" that gives a practical overview of SOFTSIM's main features in just 10 minutes

• Run SOFTSIM
  Information for those who need to set up the system environment and run SOFTSIM.

• Adapt SOFTSIM
  Information for those who are interested in cutomizing SOFTSIM based on their requirements.

• Develop SOFTSIM
  Information for those who are currently developers, or who are interested in contributing to the SOFTSIM project itself

 

5. Contact

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at fsk@email.arizona.edu.