Arjen Markus (20 december 2017) On the brink of the new year I have decided it is time to try and realize an old idea: form a group of Tcl'ers with a common interest in (system) simulation. By simulation I mean both natural systems and engineering systems and possibly other sorts of systems as well. (I have bluntly stolen the title from the ACM ...)
This page is currently a place holder, but the group has been formed: Adrien Peulvast is also keen to participate. Concrete ideas are budding, as I write this, but they are far from mature ;).
If you are interested, leave your name here.
Arjen Markus (arjen) - I mainly deal with simulations of "natural" systems, using PDEs and ODEs, as well as statistical techniques. But in my spare time I am interested in a much wider category of systems.
Denny Moore (dmoore)
Adrien Peulvast (APE) - I deal with simulation of transportation systems (subway, train) for training (with the help of Tk for visual presentation), debugging and testing purpose.
Gerald Lester (GWL) - simulation for gaming.
Luc Moulinier - Complex systems simulation
Sean Woods hypnotoad - I deal with systems of systems simulations, as well as visualizing shipboard casualties in 2d and 3d. This includes tracking crew movement, fire spread, flooding, and structure damage.
Things to aim for with this group:
From a more technical point of view:
APE : I propose to let interested persons to add their names above until end of January, and then we will start thinking about the next steps. It doesn't mean that other persons cannot participate, but they will on-board in on-going activities.
roadmap item | target date |
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initial list of participants | 31st January 2018 |
system simulation group start meeting | beg. February 2018 (?) |
next steps definition | end February 2018 (?) |
APE : having a common shared understanding is mandatory to discuss. Let's start with first ones - simulation and system - and a third one linking them.
APE : can be anything used to support the group discussions from wikipedia, whitepapers, wiki pages.
arjen Already quite a few years ago I added a module "simulation" to Tcllib. It covers only a very small set of simulation types, but it might serve as a beginning.