STEM Community Call October 25, 2012
On Call: Jamie, Stefan, Kun, Chris, Alex, Kendall, Werner, Judy
1. Plan for V 1.4.1: MINOR RELEASE TO ADDRESS ITEMS BELOW
Date: Dec 14, 2012
Features:
Bug Fixes from 1.4.0
Performance improvements
Polio Vaccination Example
New STEM Update mechanism ***
New Food Distribution Analysis view (incubation)
New Apache library
New Solvers
Plan for V 2.0: MAJOR RELEASE, SCHEDULED w/ FEATURES BELOW
Tentative Date: 4/17/13
Features:
Bug Fixes from 1.4.1
Performance improvements
Graphical Model Design (GUI for code generation)
Advanced Dengue Example
Stochastic Modeling - need to watch apach.math.commons library
2. New Documentation for 2.0/1.4.1: DOC ON WIKI
* New STEM Update Mechanism
* New Doc on Food Distribution View
* Food Distribution view doc
* Need a doc page describing (or linking to descriptions) of different solvers
3. Feature Request "community model repository"
Matthias: What has to be done to create a community model repository including an option to reuse models elements, e.g., disease model or population model etc.? Will open a new entry in the newsgroup on this issue.
Background: Today we put runnable scenarios on the website but it's not a searchable repository and it's not a place to put "components." How could we best support this idea?
Discussion: Jamie—Need to define “community; Eclipse update mechanism is the way to go; would inform user downloading model if he doesn’t have the required resources. Could put model files on wiki? Werner—Eclipse Marketplace might be an option.
TO DO: Look into Eclipse Marketplace (Jamie)
TO DO: Explain Eclipse update to Matthias (Chris & Alex)
TO DO: Reschedule discussion for when Matthias in on call (Jamie/Judy)
4. Bug(s) of the week
372770 Feature Request: Import Discrete Population Transportation Events in STEM
Discussion: Why would this go in a model and not a scenario? Need to conserve disease state with Population Migration
Can the external data source models implicitly handle this? If so, is it just a need for documentation? Would be cool to be able to compose full scenarios by other means including pajek, other file formats etc.
Chris: Would like to allow developer to put triggers into models
Jamie: Pajek importer is great; is ability to create a dynamic graph generator so the dynamic graph is reusable what Chris wants?
TO DO: Rethink issue, put in bugzilla for further discussion (Chris)
5. Dengue Updates from NEA S
Hold item for discussion when India team on call
6. ITEMS FROM PARTICIPANTS
Kun: Sent email to Chris requesting confirmation re data. Chris—Has very little doc re data; will ask Matthias; Jamie—May be able to do another way; will pursue w/ Kun
Chris: Had problems w/ initializer code when using lots of data, needed to re-scale; Stefan—Problem arose for India group; Jamie—When to rescale, when to switch?
TO DO: Make default no rescaling; allow for other approach
Werner: India team may be at demo camp; looks forward to hearing from them; Will present in Berlin, but not on STEM; Chris will attend