Demographics grid

The Demographics (node) is included when the scenario is chosen to be a dynamic one. In this case the user does not build the installations one by one, but rather builds a Collection installation with a lot of appliances and person types, adding statistics on the distribution of appliances and person types among the generated installations. This way it is easy to construct a variety of installations in the order to 1K, 10K or more in an automated.

The procedure is as follows:

1. Declare the scenario as dynamic. A Demographics node will appear.
2. Create one installation with the name Collection.
3. Add in the installation Collection as many persons (with activities and activity models) and appliances (with consumption models) you wish.
4. Create a demographics parameter set.
5. Set the number of entities (Installations for now) you wish to create.
6. Drag and drop persons and appliance from the installation Collection to the grid Entities setting also their probability of participating. The probabilities for person types should sum up to 1, while probabilities for each appliance should be between 0 and 1.

By double-clicking the Demographics node, the user can see in a grid the demographics parameter sets of a dynamic scenario. The available commands are to create a new one and edit or delete an existing one, by first selecting the corresponding row and then pressing either edit or delete.

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