2.2.6. The Initialization elementΒΆ

..An Initialization element information item is a child of the ModelUnit element.

Any model requires the initialization of its state variables.

<ModelUnit modelid=" " timestep=" " name=" " version =" ">
   ...
   <Initialization name=" " language=" " filename=" "/>

   ...
</ModelUnit>

  1. An Initialization element MAY be specified if initial value is provided by a function or different from default value.e

  2. An Initialization element MUST contain the name and language attributes

    The language used to express initialization code must be the same as that used to encode model algorithm.

    The name of initialisation process is prefixed by init. followed by the name of the model.

  3. An Initialization element MAY contain the filename attribute to specify the path of the initialization file