Systems and methods for analyzing variant configurations of simulation models

Abstract

Systems and methods may analyze a simulation model that includes model elements configured to operate as variants. The variants may be controlled by variant conditions that may include variant control variables. A group of variant configurations may be defined for the model where each variant configuration may include a different set of the variant control variables. For each variant configuration, the systems and methods may determine which model elements configured to operate as variants are active and which model elements are inactive. The systems and methods may also determine which model elements, if any, are always active, are never active, or are sometimes active. A visualization tool may present the results of the variant configuration analysis in the form of a heatmap, a textual report, an annotated version of the simulation model, or graph, among other forms.