How are the local sensitivities calculated (and where can I find this)?

I'm trying to run a local sensitivity analysis and want to know the meaning of some properties.

What does Minimum (and Maximum) time mean.

Is there somewhere an explanation about this? And in general, where can I find an explanation on how the sensitivities are calculated?

Sensitivity functions are computed at equidistant time points (which are unrelated to the integration time points of the reference and perturbed simulations), starting at "Minimum Time" and ending at "Maximum Time". The user can either set the interval between time points, or the number of time points (from which the system will automatically derive the interval).

For more information on how sensitivity functions are computed, you may want to read through pp. 120 - 126 of

  [i]Filip Claeys. A Generic Framework for Modeling and Virtual Experimentation with Environmental Systems. PhD thesis. Ghent University,
  Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control (BIOMATH), Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent, Belgium, January 2008.[/i]

  [url=http://biomath.ugent.be/publications/download/claeysfilip_phd.pdf]http://biomath.ugent.be/publications/download/claeysfilip_phd.pdf[/url]