SimulSI

Simulation Intelligence - Model the system. Simulate the future.

SimulSI is a general-purpose, reproducible simulation and scenario experimentation framework for Python. You describe a system - customers and tellers, patients and doctors, jobs and machines, aircraft and gates, requests and servers - as discrete-event processes; SimulSI runs it, measures it, and helps you answer what if? with replications, confidence intervals, scenario comparisons, Monte Carlo and sensitivity analysis.

from simulsi import Experiment, Scenario, Simulation, model
from simulsi.randomness import Exponential


@model(duration=480, parameters={"arrival_rate": 1.0, "tellers": 3})
def bank(sim: Simulation, p):
    tellers = sim.resource("teller", capacity=p.tellers)
    arrivals, service = sim.stream("arrivals"), sim.stream("service")

    def customer(sim):
        yield sim.request(tellers)                       # wait for a teller
        yield Exponential(mean=2.6).sample(service)      # being served
        sim.release(tellers)

    def source(sim):
        while True:
            yield Exponential(rate=p.arrival_rate).sample(arrivals)
            sim.process(customer(sim))

    sim.process(source(sim))


result = Experiment(
    bank,
    [Scenario("baseline"), Scenario("four_tellers", {"tellers": 4})],
    replications=30,
    seed=42,
).run()
print(result.format_summary(["resource.teller.wait.mean", "resource.teller.utilization"]))
print(result.compare("baseline", metrics=["resource.teller.wait.mean"]).format())

Why SimulSI?

Discrete-event engines tell you what happened in one run. Decisions need more: how sure are we, which scenario is better, which input matters most, and can someone else reproduce this? SimulSI is built experiment-first:

SimulSI is not a replacement for mature engines such as SimPy or Salabim, or for commercial packages; see how SimulSI differs.

Try it without installing

Run SimulSI in your browser - Python and SimulSI run locally in the page via Pyodide (WebAssembly), with ready-made airline, epidemic, flowchart and Pareto examples.

Installation

Python 3.11+, from PyPI:

pip install simulsi             # core (includes the CLI and the web dashboard)
pip install "simulsi[viz]"      # + matplotlib plots
pip install "simulsi[all]"      # + pandas, Parquet, matplotlib, Plotly

With Docker (dashboard and CLI, no Python needed; the image is published for each release):

docker run --rm -p 127.0.0.1:8642:8642 ghcr.io/yashjindal11/simulsi        # dashboard on http://localhost:8642
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/work" ghcr.io/yashjindal11/simulsi run model.py  # any CLI command

From source (for development):

git clone https://github.com/Yashjindal11/simulsi.git && cd simulsi
python -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e ".[dev]"     # everything needed to run the tests

Command line

simulsi init my-study                          # starter model.py + experiment.yaml
simulsi validate my-study/experiment.yaml      # schema check + model smoke run
simulsi run examples/queue.py -p servers=3     # one replication, metrics table
simulsi experiment my-study/experiment.yaml    # scenarios x replications, comparison, saved results
simulsi analyze my-study/results/service-desk --precision 0.05
simulsi visualize my-study/results/service-desk --out plots
simulsi models                                 # built-in models and their what-if presets
simulsi whatif builtin:epidemic --presets      # how outputs change across scenarios
simulsi benchmark                              # events/sec on this machine
simulsi ui my-study/results/service-desk       # local dashboard on 127.0.0.1

Experiments are described in YAML - data only, validated against a strict schema:

model: model.py:service_desk
simulation: {seed: 42, duration: 480}
experiment: {replications: 30, workers: 4}
parameters: {arrival_rate: 0.9}
scenarios:
  - {name: high_demand, parameters: {arrival_rate: 1.3}}
  - {name: extra_server, parameters: {servers: 3}}

Built-in models

Fifteen ready-to-run models, each with what-if presets that show how the system reacts when a parameter changes:

simulsi models airline                                      # parameters and presets
simulsi whatif builtin:airline --presets                    # compare every preset
simulsi whatif builtin:traffic_signal --vary cycle=30,60,90,120

See the model gallery for what each one shows. Simple process models can also be written as YAML flowcharts, no Python needed: simulsi whatif examples/flowcharts/clinic.yaml --presets.

Airline operations

simulsi.aviation turns a real flight schedule (CSV) into a stochastic model of the operation - aircraft rotations, crews, runways, gates, curfews, spares, standby crews and passenger connections:

• day ahead: per-flight on-time and cancellation chances, delay ranges, fragile rotations, connection risk and alerts, under weather scenarios;
• live twin: re-forecast the rest of the day from actual times;
• what-ifs and recovery: cancel, retime or swap aircraft, compared on the same disturbances, plus a greedy recovery search;
• planning: spares and standby crews, schedule buffers, schedule changes;
• calibration: fit delays to history (including US BTS files), backtest with reliability tables, plug in an ML delay predictor;
• ground and passengers: turnaround critical path, minimum connection time, overbooking, check-in staffing.

simulsi aviation example ops && cd ops
simulsi aviation forecast schedule.csv -c connections.csv --ops ops.yaml
simulsi aviation forecast schedule.csv -c connections.csv --ops ops.yaml --status status_1200.csv --now 12:00
simulsi aviation recover schedule.csv -c connections.csv --ops ops.yaml --status status_1200.csv --now 12:00

The dashboard has an Airline ops twin page with a Gantt chart of the rotations. See Airline operations and the Alaska Airlines case study on a month of public BTS data (calibrated forecasts, then live re-forecasts that beat the day-ahead ones by 16% on Brier score by evening).

Examples

python examples/hospital.py
python scripts/run_examples.py      # all of them, quick mode

Documentation

The full documentation, including an API reference for every public class and function, is at https://yashjindal11.github.io/simulsi/. The same pages are in docs/:

• Getting started - installation, quickstart, first experiment
• Core concepts - simulation, events, entities, resources, queues, processes, randomness, metrics, disruptions, validation, introspection
• Experiments and analysis - scenarios, experiments, Monte Carlo, statistics, variance reduction, comparison, sensitivity, ranking and selection, cost, optimisation, surrogates
• Visualization - plots, HTML reports, notebooks and the web dashboard
• CLI and configuration
• Architecture - design, module map, performance, limitations
• Extending SimulSI
• Research workflow - reproducibility, provenance, statistical practice
• Flowchart models - build process models in YAML, no Python
• Built-in model gallery - airline, epidemic, supply chain, ride hailing, cloud, traffic, M/M/c
• Examples and notebooks - walkthroughs of the domain examples and tutorial notebooks
• Coming from SimPy - concept map and a side-by-side port
• FAQ - including how SimulSI compares with other tools
• Roadmap - what is next and what is deliberately out of scope
• Benchmarks - measured numbers and how to reproduce them

Status

SimulSI is alpha software (0.x) and the API may still change. It is tested on Python 3.11-3.13 (Linux, macOS, Windows in CI) with unit, property-based (Hypothesis), statistical, integration, CLI and performance tests - including checks of simulated M/M/c queues against closed-form Erlang-C results.

Citing

If SimulSI helps your work, please cite it - GitHub's Cite this repository button uses CITATION.cff.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome - see CONTRIBUTING.md and the Code of Conduct. For security reports see SECURITY.md.

License

MIT © 2026 Yash Jindal