This is a description of Ben's 4th year design project.

ADEPT is a visual tool for creating, managing and running APSIM simulations.  Its approach is based around the idea of an ‘Experiment’ which contains simulations that are derived from an initial (‘base’) simulation (usually created in the APSIM user interface).  Simulations are created and edited by the user choosing different combinations of ‘Factor’ ‘Values’.  ‘Factors’ are like variables (ie ‘Sowing Depth’ or ‘Soil’), and ‘Values’ are the different values of these factors that the user has specified.  ApsimUI is used to create these ‘Factors’ and ‘Values’ which then appear on the ‘Design’ view of ADEPT and can be combined to create as many simulations as a user may want.  Simulations appear in a ‘family tree’ type view under the factors but can be dragged around the screen to best represent the relationships between them (like to reflect changes over time).  Simulations can either be exported to *.apsim files outside ADEPT so the user can use them elsewhere, or they can be run from within ADEPT and the results can be viewed on a graphing tool in the ‘Analysis’ view.  ‘Experiments’ may be saved, then opened later, retaining all the information from the last session, including the outputs from any simulations that have been run within ADEPT.