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

["Judy Douglas" <judyvdouglas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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