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Acknowledgements and declaration of interest<br />
This paper was written, and some of the work described herein was undertaken, while I was on a<br />
Darwin Trust of Edinburgh <strong>Research</strong> Fellowship. I cannot adequately express my appreciation<br />
to the Trust <strong>for</strong> its support: most academics can only dream of having 3 years to pursue Ideas,<br />
with no teaching, administration - or even reports to write. I'm now an 'independent academic'<br />
(that's another name <strong>for</strong> a house husband): thanks to Marion <strong>for</strong> carrying on working while I play<br />
on my computer.<br />
The development of Simile has been mainly funded by the United Kingdom Department <strong>for</strong><br />
International Development (DFID) <strong>for</strong> the benefit of developing countries The views expressed<br />
are not necessarily those of DFID. Project codes were R5652 and R7635 Forestry <strong>Research</strong><br />
Programme. Some development has also been funded by the EU Environment Programme, within<br />
the ModMED project I gratefully acknowledge the support received from these sources.<br />
In November 2001, a startup company, Simulistics Ltd, was <strong>for</strong>med under licence from the<br />
University of Edinburgh and with the approval of the DFID/FRP Programme Manager to develop<br />
and market Simile and related products and services. I am a minority share-holder in this<br />
company.<br />
Jasper Taylor wrote the original Simile software - many thanks to him <strong>for</strong> turning an idea into<br />
reality.<br />
I am grateful to the ATEAM project <strong>for</strong> inviting me to be an external assessor, and <strong>for</strong> giving me<br />
the opportunity to learn so much about such an ambitious and wide-ranging project. Parts of<br />
Section 9 were based on internal ATEAM publications and discussions with ATEAM members. I<br />
would also like to thank Denis Peter (Programme Officer, European Commission - DG <strong>Research</strong>:<br />
Environment and Sustainable Development Programme), whose idea this paper was, and the<br />
ATEAM and AVEC projects <strong>for</strong> supporting its preparation. I also acknowledge the detailed<br />
feedback provided by Rik Leemans on an earlier draft, and corrections on the nature of the<br />
ATEAM project from Dagmar Schröter.<br />
I have appreciated useful discussions with Jonathan Massheder and Alastair Davies (Simulistics),<br />
members of the MODCOM group, and many others on the subject of declarative modelling. For<br />
some reason, most people seem to disagree with me, but that has no doubt helped to hone (and<br />
moderate) my ideas.