Notes from the STEM Call on February 8, 2018
Present on the call: Jamie, Stefan, Anna, Ahmad, Taras, Emily, Judy
Next Call: Thursday, March 8
Congratulations to Ahmad Swaid on his election as an Eclipse Committer!
*Jamie: Election confirmed; Ahmad: Paperwork submitted
1. Upcoming STEM Release identified earlier as Version 3.0.0 Milestone 5 will move to Eclipse 4.0 and thus be identified as version STEM Version 4.0
*For current workaround to problem with launcher on Mac go to
https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/1084123/1753241/#msg_1753241
2. Project Updates
Emily: Finishing course on Java programming using Eclipse IDE this week
*Problem experiments with a different seed (on Windows). Jamie: Problem may be with slash (backward and forward) and string variable; may need to use path.separator to resolve and break up string. Emily: Will work with her instructor for the Java class tomorrow on this
*Java LoopReplace.jar. Jamie: Not likely this is the problem; can print out and check
*Different folders in output (recorded simulations folder) when running headless, not when running GUI. Jamie: Can’t reproduce problem.
TO DO for Emily: Put scenario and command to run headless in box for Jamie
3. STEM Update: Ahmad
As new committer, will split repository, create branch; as soon as ready to do so, will alert Jamie and Stefan
4. Bugs
530858: Need way to run different random number seeds for stochastic solver; posted Jamie; assigned Emily
530546: Avoiding misspellings in disease – and population decorator; posted Taras; new, stem.ui-inbox
530549: Warning that decorators are not editable in STEM; posted Taras; new, stem.ui-inbox
5. Documentation Updates
*Jamie and Stefan: For solvers using Apache math, put in link; improve documentation
*Emily: Write up doc on stochastic solvers after her course
6. Items from Participants
*Ahmad: Working on project using EMF to generate new forms
*Anna: Problem with model generator setting value for transmission rate; will share equations, formula she want to use on next call. Jamie: Can create with a constant, edit value later
*Taras: Posted bugs above: working on PhD on network modeling, possibly looking at swine fever, Asian flu; in October talked with Emily about project issues, proposes using Gitter to discuss STEM’s open source projects; POSTED ON WIKI 2/8/2018