[Population Modeling] Book Chapter on Software

[Jacob Barhak]

Hi Stefan,

In this context, you will find several resources useful:

1. The Tools and databases page in IMAG wiki:
http://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/modeling-tools-databases

2. The predictive model index in the same IMAG wiki:
http://www.imagwiki.nibib.nih.gov/model-indexing

3. The SimTk repository our mailing list is based of:
https://simtk.org

Those resources already have many tools and models and if you have a model
or a useful tool, you can add it there. I encourage modelers from this list
to use those resources and register their models/tools.

Nevertheless, it is useful to write a chapter about tools with human
narrative.

                Jacob



On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:32 AM, Stefan Scholz <
stefan.scholz at uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to put together a book chapter about the software tools used
> (by our group) for population modeling. If it is okay with you, I would
> like to do this in 2 steps:
> 1. Find software characteristics to categorize the software in a short (!)
> "questionnaire"
> 2. Ask you to fill out the "questionnaire"
>
> So far I thought of the following characteristics:
>
> - Name of the software (including name of toolbox(es)/package(s)/module(s),
> e.g. R-packages)
> - Is it open source?
> - Is it freely available for students/academia?
> - Does it have a graphical user interface (GUI)? Exclusively?
> - For which platforms is it available  (Windows/Linux/Mac)?
> - Does it make use of parallel computing? For CPUs/GPUs/Computing clusters?
> - Is random number generation incorporated / stochastic modeling possible?
> - On which programming language does it rely?
> - Is there sufficient documentation/user support available?
> - Your experiences (positive and negative) with the software (optional)
>
> I very much appreciate any comment or supplement to this list! I would
> wait until the 6th of March to complete the questionnaire and send it to
> you afterwards. I hope the collection and overview of software tools is of
> general interest or use for everyone on the mailinglist.
>
> Thank you very much in advance!
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan
>
> --
> Stefan Scholz
>
> University of Bielefeld
> Faculty of Public Health
> Department of Health Economics and Health Management
> P.O. Box 10 01 31
> D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
>
> Phone: +49 0521 | 106-2648
> Mail: stefan.scholz at uni-bielefeld.de
>
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