Fig. 3

The summary Table (ST) displays all attractors and the attractor basin in the system for the running example model with three nodes introduced above. The HTML table uses a heat-map style color scheme to display the steady states of nodes. The ST on the left is generated for an unchanged model (a) and the ST on the right is for a perturbed model (b). For all perturbed models, PlantSimLab displays a CAUTION message to inform of the potential existence of other steady states or limit cycles than the displayed (b) (see below for an explanation). The entire state space graph is drawn using different colors and box sizes to make the state space graph more visually intuitive and informative (c). A subset of the state space (d) can be also drawn for further study of the simulation of a network component selected with a click on a row corresponding to a particular component row in the ST, on a component piece in the pie-chart (e), or on a component entry from the Component Summary drop-down box provided in the Results Viewer toolbox