[stem-dev] Notes from today's STEM community call

["Judy Douglas" <judyvdouglas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

STEM Community Call August 9, 2012

On Call: Jamie, Stefan, Matt, Kun, Matthias, Chris, Dan, Werner, Judy

 

IMPORTANT: THERE WILL BE NO STEM CALL NEXT TWO WEEKS. THE NEXT CALL WILL BE IN THREE WEEKS, ON AUGUST 30.

 

1. New plug in available to export graphs added by Chris, instructions on wiki

 

2. Kamesh on dengue project

Discussing plans for next 4-5 months; two new people, one from Singapore, are joining project

Will use dengue model w/ available Singapore resolution map and available data (weekly incidence)

Need to validate methodology in absence of serotype data

Will talk with Kun next week; will let Jamie know time of call

Jamie: Can’t initiate or calibrate w/o serotype data; possibly can look across countries

Kamesh: Will be going to Singapore in three weeks

 

3. 1.4.0 Release Plan (tentative 9/25/2012)

NO ADDITIONS; ON TARGET AS DETAILED IMMEDIATELY BELOW                        
    Bug Fixes from 1.3.1 
    Performance improvements 
    Simplified creation of new Disease and Population models (Tools for generating new disease plugins) 
    Pajek-file Importer:   
    Enable import of discrete transportation events 
    Enable integration between user graphs and existing STEM graphs 
    New MapView to visualize the discrete transportation events and the ability to display multiple views of the same simulation 
    Polio Example 
    Stochastic Modeling Framework 
    Ability to Delete Items inside a Graph from Designer Perspective 
    Deep copy drag and drop for models 
    Refactor 
    Create new mixing edges
    Improved UI for decorators view 
    New Implementation of STEM Preferences 
    * Time adaptive external data source models 
          
4. New Doc for 1.4.0

NO ADDITIONS; ON TARGET AS DETAILED BELOW 
*wiki practice
*mixing edges and mixing edge graph generator (DONE) integrated in transportation models page (done). posted on newsgroup 
*map view features     
*Pajak import tutorial (Done) 
*Best Practice for Developers, writing performance critical components in STEM (done) 
*additional doc for more realistic food SCENARIO doc is done but not in wiki yet. Scenario today. 
*Need better top level food modeling doc (draft created) 

5. Food production discussion--latest data/results

*Topic addressed under items 1, 6, 7, and 8

6. ISVEE2012 posters

*IBM poster done

*BfR poster underway and under control 

7. Bug of the week: Location picker bug being used w/ farms in Germany project data

Doesn't work when only admin level 2 regions are available; Jamie will resolve in consultation w/ Chris

8. Items from Participants

Chris: Working with graph editor, export function

Matt: Making commits re using double values; changes are to STEM core, will not be noticed by most users

Stefan: Working w/ BfR on implementing literature models

Kun: Running dengue data on 3 servers, should complete by tomorrow

Dan: Doing experiments w/ Berlin data set; working on maps, will meet w/ Barbara to possibly ID some solutions

Jamie: Will have call next Tuesday w/ Matthias, Kun, and Dan on improving calibration of the gravity model; will use slides (not video conferencing)

Werner: Poland conference has no funds available for BfR travel but is interested in STEM; will present hour-long talk; Jamie will contribute animations, etc.