mosaiks are made of tesserae: GUI design for a co-simulation framework
Schulte, Eike and Schwarz, Jan Sören and Stomberg, Malte and Alsharif, Sharaf and Valko, Danila and Kamsamsong, Jirapa
2026 Open Source Modelling and Simulation of Energy Systems (OSMSES)
In a mosaic, a tessera is a single stone. We introduce tesserae for the co-simulation framework mosaik, where they are sets of entities. They allow for a visual, intuitive, and yet systematic description of simulation scenarios by allowing their entities to be created together and the entities of two tesserae to be connected simultaneously, while ensuring that multidirectional data-flow between tesserae remains consistent without further manual synchronization. We further present an extension of mosaik by a graphical user interface (GUI) based on these tesserae, enabling the drag-and-drop creation of co-simulation setups and their execution. The GUI aims to make mosaik more accessible to users previously excluded by its script-based nature. At the same time, it preserves mosaik’s flexibility, extensibility, and modular architecture.
03 / 2026
inproceedings
1-6
NFDI4Energy
National Research Data Infrastructure for the Interdisciplinary Energy System Research
National Research Data Infrastructure for the Interdisciplinary Energy System Research
