STEM Community Call June 13, 2013
On Call: Jamie, Kendall, Stefan, Matt, Kun, April, Kezban, Chris, Alex, Werner, Judy
Next week, Jamie & Stefan to be in London, Jamie will give talk on STEM @ The Imperial College on Tuesday; Kun will moderate call
The following week, Jamie will attend Gates Foundation modeling meeting in Seattle; Stefan will moderate call
1. V 2.0 Milestone 2 is now available
V 2.0 Milestone 3 planned for 6/18; code freeze this week; Matt working on bugs, probably will not need to slip date
Milestone 3:
*Bug Fixes
*New Stochastic model solver (Stefan), needs preliminary doc on how this works
*Visual Editor initial checkin, needs doc
*New Measles model
*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
Significance: Users will no longer need to know how program in Java; Jamie will demo in London; notice that is still “buggy” to be posted on newsgroup, acknowledged in Jamie’s talk @ Imperial College
Future V 2.0 Release Features to include:
*Xtext model generator feature
*Graphical Model Design (GUI for code generation, Visual Editor)
*Bug Fixes from 1.4.1
*Performance improvements
* Advanced Dengue Example
**Stochastic Modeling - New Solver, need doc
After Eclipse release we need to contact Eclipse legal re Apache
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 document Stefan’s new periodic control graph generator
==== Documentation for MMR model
==== Shape file graph generator
==== Visual Editor
TO DO: PRELIMINARY DOC FOR (1) VISUAL EDITOR [Matt], (2) NEW STOCHASTIC SOLVER [Stefan], (3) DIRECTIONALLY BIASED MIXING MODEL (MIGRATORY BIRDS) [Jamie]; will send links to Judy; Judy will track
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. Directionally biased mixing model. DONE, doc still needed
4. Bug(s) of the week
409742 Mercator Map Logger does not export images with black borders: Matt to fix before Milestone 3
409540 Proposal: Make solvers "first class" objects. Vote Yes; more to be done; will be in Milestone 4
Documentation Issue: Inconsistent use of Greek letters; Kezban reviewed lit, STEM wiki and STEM software, found inconsistent use of symbols for (1) incubation rate (will use epsilon) and (2) immunity loss rate; will use epsilon for (1), alpha or sigma for (2); Kezban to decide, resolve inconsistencies, apply patch
New [Bug 408797] from Alex. Still Pending (Refactoring broken?) New: Renaming Projects AND Copying between Projects ; will wait for Milestone 4
FEATURE Request: Fix aggregate time series view; will be part of Milestone 4
6. Items from Participants
Kendall: Gates Foundation modeling meeting June 25-26 to bring together academics, others; also planning side meeting to develop community of practice; Jamie to be involved
Stefan: Has done front page STEM updates
Werner: Sent link (in German) re salmonella in sausage; re Eclipse info, will send out link to Eclipse wiki for clips
