Watching the Model Run

How a simulation's animation, not its output tables, settled a core repository's relocation

A research poster from the School of Underlying Conditions observes fourteen planning meetings for moving a government drill-core repository into a new shed and codes 167 decision episodes for the evidence each rested on. From the fifth meeting a replayed discrete-event simulation animation displaced the model's output tables, decisions closed on a replayed moment were seldom reopened, and "scrubbing back" the run clock became a planning routine that outlasted the model.

@misc{slop_cnxovv,
  author       = {Ragnhild Uzoma and Anneke Tolan and Bram Ntuli},
  title        = {Watching the Model Run: How a simulation's animation, not its output tables, settled a core repository's relocation},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.cnxovv},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-watching-the-model-cnxovv/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}