BAYNET: An interactive engine for visualizing complexity and exploring outcomes. See the connections, understand the risks. AI inside.
Introducing BAYNET: [by SMZ] The Engine for Creating Intelligent and Interactive Simulations
What is BAYNET?
BAYNET is not an application, but an engine. It is a powerful and flexible development platform (framework) designed for a single purpose: transforming complex data models, such as Bayesian Networks, into interactive, visual, and intelligent web applications. Think of BAYNET as a game engine (like Unity or Unreal), but instead of creating video games, it allows developers, analysts, and researchers to build real-world simulators. It provides all the ready-to-use tools to visualize cause-and-effect relationships, manipulate variables, and, most importantly, integrate advanced artificial intelligence. The CistoNet application is just one example of what can be built with BAYNET. The engine itself is completely domain-agnostic and can be adapted to any field, from finance to ecology.
The BAYNET Philosophy
BAYNET is built on three fundamental pillars: Modularity and Flexibility: The engine is completely separate from the data model. Developers can "upload" any Bayesian Network model (defined in a configuration file, such as cistonet-model.js), and BAYNET will automatically build the entire graphical and interactive interface around it.
Intuitive Visualization: Complexity is useless if it can't be understood. BAYNET is obsessed with making probabilistic relationships easy to interpret. Through dynamic graphics (nodes that change size, links that light up), it translates complex mathematics into an immediate visual experience. Integrated Intelligence (AI-Ready): BAYNET was designed with the future in mind. It knows that artificial intelligence will no longer be limited to the cloud, but will live on our devices. For this reason, it includes a modular "AI Assistant," ready to connect to local AI models like Gemini Nano to offer private, secure, and instant analysis.
Key Features of the BAYNET Engine Bayesian Computation Engine: The brain of BAYNET, capable of calculating and propagating probabilities across the network in real time with every user interaction.
Dynamic SVG Renderer: The visual heart, which draws the network, nodes, and edges, managing animations, tooltips, and interactions like clicks and hovers to make exploration fluid and informative.
Automatic Control System: BAYNET reads the model configuration and automatically generates all interface controls (sliders, buttons, drop-down menus), saving developers hundreds of hours of work.
Modular AI Assistant: A "plug-and-play" component that allows you to define tasks for the AI. It can both run pre-programmed simulations (for universal compatibility) and invoke a real AI like Gemini Nano, using the window.ai API for on-device analysis.
Guided Tour: An integrated system for creating step-by-step tutorials that guide users through the application's features, essential for complex tools.
State Management: Includes ready-to-use features to reset the simulation, load predefined scenarios, and share the current state via a simple URL link.
Beyond Medicine: The Unlimited Potential of BAYNET As a general-purpose engine, BAYNET can power simulators in countless sectors: Finance: Simulate market risk. Inputs: interest rates, inflation, geopolitical events. Outputs: probability of recession, portfolio risk.
Ecology: Model an ecosystem. Inputs: predator population, pollution level, climate change. Outputs: probability of survival of a species.
Marketing: Predicting the success of an advertising campaign. Inputs: budget, marketing channel, target demographic. Output: expected conversion rate. Predictive Maintenance: Predicting machine failure. Inputs: sensor data (vibration, temperature), component age. Output: probability of imminent failure.
In conclusion, BAYNET is the bridge between abstract data models and interactive human understanding. It is a tool that not only democratizes access to complex simulations, but also opens the door to a new generation of web applications that leverage the power of local artificial intelligence to be more private, faster, and smarter than ever before