sd-ai is an open source project that provides a web service to act as an intermediary between Stella, or any model development software, and commercial AI engines. The project is housed on github, and uses the open source MIT License.
The intent of the gateway is to speed the evolution of AI supported model development by encouraging community involvement. By creating a bridge between model development environments such as Stella and the underlying AI engines it can help accelerate research in this area.
isee systems hosts a version of this gateway on ai.iseesystems.com, that Stella will point to by default. As the scope and function SD-AI is rapidly evolving the project itself is the best source of documentation on how it works.
Research on the intersection of System Dynamics and Artificial Intelligence is being actively pursued at BEAMS, a collaboration organized by the University at Buffalo. There is also a discussion group.
To set up your own gateway clone the main repository and configure it the way you want. The details for doing this are beyond the scope of this documentation, but some instructions are available from thegithub repository. One it is set up and started point the AI Assistant at it. For example:
If you are running on a location other than your local host, we recommend setting up a secure (https) connection and probably putting the service itself behind a proxy server such as NGINX.