Spine Toolbox: A flexible open-source workflow management system with scenario and data management

Juha Kiviluoma; Fabiano Pallonetto; Manuel Marin; Pekka T. Savolainen; Antti Soininen; Per Vennström; Jiangyi Huang; Iasonas Kouveliotis-Lysikatos; Maren Ihlemann; Erik Delarue; Ciara O'Dwyer; Terence O'Donnel; Mikael Amelin; Lennart Söder; Joseph Dillon

doi:10.1016/j.softx.2021.100967

Spine Toolbox: A flexible open-source workflow management system with scenario and data management

Juha Kiviluoma
, Fabiano Pallonetto^*
, Manuel Marin
, Pekka T. Savolainen
, Antti Soininen
, Per Vennström
, Jiangyi Huang
, Iasonas Kouveliotis-Lysikatos
, Maren Ihlemann
, Erik Delarue
, Ciara O'Dwyer
, Terence O'Donnel
, Mikael Amelin
, Lennart Söder
, Joseph Dillon

^*Corresponding author for this work

UCD Energy Institute
Maynooth University
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
Energy Reform Ltd.

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30 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

The Spine Toolbox is open-source software for defining, managing, simulating and optimising energy system models. It gives the user the ability to collect, create, organise, and validate model input data, execute a model with selected data and finally archive and visualise results/output data. Spine Toolbox has been designed and developed to support the creation and execution of multivector energy integration models. It conveniently facilitates the linking of models with different scopes, or spatio-temporal resolutions, through the user interface. The models can be organised as a direct acyclic graph and efficiently executed through the embedded workflow management engine. The software helps users to import and manage data, define models and scenarios and orchestrate projects. It supports a self-contained and shareable entity-relationship data structure for storing model parameter values and the associated data. The software is developed using the latest Python environment and supports the execution of plugins. It is shipped in an installation package as a desktop application for different operating systems.

Original language	English
Article number	100967
Journal	SoftwareX
Volume	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100967
Publication status	Published - Jan 2022
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Nr. 774629.

Keywords

Data management
Modelling
Open source
Optimisation
Scenario
Workflow management

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Kiviluoma, J., Pallonetto, F., Marin, M., Savolainen, P. T., Soininen, A., Vennström, P., Huang, J., Kouveliotis-Lysikatos, I., Ihlemann, M., Delarue, E., O'Dwyer, C., O'Donnel, T., Amelin, M., Söder, L., & Dillon, J. (2022). Spine Toolbox: A flexible open-source workflow management system with scenario and data management. SoftwareX, 17, Article 100967. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2021.100967

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Spine Toolbox: A flexible open-source workflow management system with scenario and data management

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Sensitivity of a lumped-capacitance building thermal modelling approach for energy-market-scale flexibility studies

Economic model-predictive control of building heating systems using Backbone energy system modelling framework

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Second International Energy Agency, Energy in Buildings and Communities, Annex 83 Ph.D. Summer School “Principles of energy system modelling for Positive Energy Districts”

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