STEM Community Call October 11, 2012
On Call: Jamie, Stefan, Matt, Kun, Kamesh, Alfiya, Chris, Alex, Kendall, Werner, Judy
New to call: Kendall Krause, public health MD working with Craig @ aegiscreative on virus surveillance
1) Website migration to GIT (developers will need GIT)
Matt: Highly technical issues; Eclipse shutting down CVS repository @ end of year; STEM will have to move to GIT repository; have request in to webmaster for migration; queue is long, committers may want to check on status
2) Plan for next Release V 1.4.1 is up. You can make changes on the wiki and we will merge with website
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
Plan for V 2.0
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
* 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
TO DO (All): Notify Jamie and Judy of any new documentation posted on the wiki
3. Solvers: Update
Stefan: Solvers went into code base last week, will be available in new integration build later this week; improve error handling via a window, also improve apache for differential equations, etc. used in STEM
4. STEM Update Site
See item 1 with update from Matt
4. Bug(s) of the Week
Bug 315252: Should not auto(ant)-build scenarios if map does not exist (Fixed)
New Bug: Need map view dialog with never show me again option informing user if she/he is running scenario that has no spatial information (bland map)
TO DO (Jamie): Create bug; this is a feature request, not an urgent item
TO DO (Chris): Will address as feature when he begins using STEM again on a microbiology project (see below)
5. ITEMS FROM PARTICIPANTS
* Chris: New project not yet underway will work on food distribution to animals in Germany
* Kamesh: Has sent archive of scenario to Jamie; will discuss on call tomorrow
Jamie: If values appear close, could use Nelder Mead & time series; could use as starting point for optimizer
(not a predictive model)
TO DO: Kun will send power spectrum to Kamesh
* Werner: Will post link to new book about pandemics spreading from animals to humans throughout history on newsgroup
* Judy: Faulty PDF of malaria modeling article (still unpublished!) on Malaria World website; Stefan is working with Malaria Journal to ensure all equations, graphs appear accurately in final published version in that Journal; Judy will note problem in comment field for article on the Malaria World website