https://sourceforge.net/p/ecolab/news/2012-12-07T10:52:11.408000ZRecent posts to news2012-12-07T10:52:11.408000Z2012-12-07T10:52:11.408000ZHigh Performance Coderhttps://sourceforge.net/u/hpcoder/https://sourceforge.netecf476eee76c17b671856c91767d5c426ced6271

There was a problem recent with the source code repository mirror on SourceForge which lead to corrupt tarballs being delivered. This has now been fixed.

2012-09-15T07:28:56.989000Z2012-09-15T07:28:56.989000ZHigh Performance Coderhttps://sourceforge.net/u/hpcoder/https://sourceforge.net67ba8455391dad6b728ceec78c6fef14d06278a6

A new Graph library is being added, with import/export features to/from Pajek and LGL. It is compatible with the Boost graph algorithm library. It can be used within EcoLab to visualise small graphs using GraphViz (see netgraph command). Also contained in the library are graph generators for Erdos-Renyi random graphs, and Barabasi-Albert preferential attachment process. Finally, a new version of network complexity is included. Details will be released soon in a full paper and file release. In the meantime, sneak previews are available in the source repository

2012-09-15T07:28:56.934000Z2012-09-15T07:28:56.934000ZHigh Performance Coderhttps://sourceforge.net/u/hpcoder/https://sourceforge.net18d4d638a16bd3a0a7e0cd206096444959383ebf

I have just released Ecolab 5.D1. This is a major version change in that the API has changed in a few siginificant ways. Classdesc 3 (also just released) has a number of improvements, including changing the descriptor signature, better support for descriptor access to private members, improved polymorphism support, improved reflection support of functionals (determining arity and types of functions via metaprogramming techniques) and two new descriptors supporting Java integration and JSON serialisation. The opportunity was also taken to rationalise namespace support - EcoLab should play more nicely in bigger projects. Longer term, the old "EcoLab 5 project", which was launched in 2007, is back in business as the "EcoLab 6 project". Much of the necessary support work has been done in the Classdesc 3 project - now it needs to be turned into a full EcoLab. The vision is an EcoLab library that allows a user-written C++ model be automatically reflected into various frameworks, including the existing TCL framework (dubbed Classic EcoLab), Java frameworks (such as RePast and any scripting environment supported by SWIG. If anyone is interested in getting involved in the project, we have room for people with Java/JNI skills, and a little later on once the EcoLab 6 API congeals, people to port well-known agent-based models as demonstrators and case-studies. If you're interested, please get back to me with your SourceForge id so I can add you to the project, and get you access to the code repository.