STEM Community Call April 25, 2013
On Call: Jamie, Stefan, Kun, Chris, Alex, Judy
1. V 2.0 Milestone 1 available Tuesday, April 2
Plan for Milestone 2 on May 2nd as on website: still on
Milestone 1: On Track: UI, model development workflow, builder tools, xtext, all in STEM
Add model generator Feature to STEM-core (with required plugins)
Customize Project Explorer (show/hide generated Java code)
Hot injection of generated plugins
Future V 2.0 Release Features to include:
Xtext model generator feature
Graphical Model Design (GUI for code generation)
Bug Fixes from 1.4.1
Performance improvements
Advanced Dengue Example
Stochastic Modeling - need to watch apach.math.commons library
2. New Documentation for 2.0
==== Pubs updated on wiki
==== Updated Upcoming (and recent) talks on main website
==== Use of model generator inside of stem (vs in the dev environment)
==== Added new documentation for Stefan’s new periodic control graph generator
==== Documentation for MMR model
==== Shape file graph generator - need new screenshot on wiki (Stefan to send to Jamie to put up
TO DO (ALL): Please Post recent/upcoming talks (also publications) on wiki or send to Judy to post
...we should write a paper on the Compartment Transition Definition Language
3. H7N9 Model status and Update from China: Jamie
Stefan & Kun have built two models, one bird-to-bird, one bird-to-human
Question: How would human-to-human be different?
Question: How long does it take a chicken to recover from the flu? Alex will ask Yvette
4. Discussion/Description of new measles model: Stefan
Working w/ researchers in Britain, using Chris’s mechanism for an aging population in an SEIR model
Introducing new compartments for (1) newborns w/ maternal immunity and (2) newly vaccinated individuals who have not yet built up immunities (takes several weeks)
5. GIT transition plan update
===Chris: Works ok with HTTPS
=== We can proceed when ready
===Update on migration plan when Matt is back
6. Bug(s) of the week
400920 Update: Shape file graph generator is not intuitive
Can now import multiple populations, have made more intuitive; need new screenshot on wiki
405549 Chris: Update on troubles running STEM 2 product; same issues as before...windows xp, java 6. Two machines - does not have admin rights on either
** Matt: Probably OCI loader deadlocked due to something the Almaden team was doing behind the scenes
** Did we respond to user with Uganda Shapefile bug?
** New user in India (Pandit) in India ran ok following query/response, hopes to join call in future
