Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software

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Post by jonaz3d » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 11:50 AM UTC

Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software
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Re: Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software

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Post by jonaz3d » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 11:50 AM UTC

Hello World!

It appears the EpidemicsRunner software toolkit has been made open source. It was developed by a crossfunctional team of the German Goethe Center for Scientific Computation Universität and has apparently been used in real life settings as guidance tool.

Images, description and source code can be found on https://github.com/devanshr/epidemics

The EpidemicsRunner allows the user to run various algorithms used in epidemiologial modeling. The main feature is its in build editor and support an optimization framework, which allows the user to adjust model parameters to existing data.

It has been designed for ease of use (but still full of features) because its original purpose was as a quick response tool for e.g. local authorities. The vision: A non expert user can quickly generate various scenarios based on local data and decide local measures until expert knowledge arrives.

The tool has been used in various capacities. In order to inspire learning and maybe even help others, it has been made open source.

You can use and modify it however you want. You can also import only the headers to your own C++ program.

If you want to use the GUI, a build script is provided in the EpidemicsRunner folder. All features of the GUI are active if you put it in the plugin folder of the UG4 framework.

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Re: Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software

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Post by awlkjlkjlkaw » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 1:14 PM UTC

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Post by freemint » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 1:20 PM UTC

awlkjlkjlkaw wrote: post #3

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Commies are really, really rare in Germany. I find it personally doubtful that so many are involved in that research area.

Also try to assume that they are acting in good faith.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 1:21 PM UTC

awlkjlkjlkaw wrote: post #3

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Re: Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software

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Post by freemint » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 1:31 PM UTC

jonaz3d wrote: post #2

Hello World! It appears the EpidemicsRunner software toolkit has been made open source. It was developed by a crossfunctional team of the German Goethe Center for Scientific Computation Universität and has apparently been used in real life settings as guidance tool. Images, description and source code can be found on https://github.com/devanshr/epidemics The EpidemicsRunner allows the user to run various algorithms u…

Thank you for making public money sponsored code public.

If you don't mind why was the software written in C++?

Re: Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software

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Post by Conan_Kudo » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 1:35 PM UTC

jonaz3d wrote: post #2

Hello World! It appears the EpidemicsRunner software toolkit has been made open source. It was developed by a crossfunctional team of the German Goethe Center for Scientific Computation Universität and has apparently been used in real life settings as guidance tool. Images, description and source code can be found on https://github.com/devanshr/epidemics The EpidemicsRunner allows the user to run various algorithms u…

There's no license on the codebase, could someone add an OSI-approved license to this codebase? UG4 itself is LGPLv3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html), so licensing this under the same terms would make sense.

Re: Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software

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Post by jonaz3d » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 1:49 PM UTC

freemint wrote: post #6

jonaz3d wrote: post #2

Hello World! It appears the EpidemicsRunner software toolkit has been made open source. It was developed by a crossfunctional team of the German Goethe Center for Scientific Computation Universität and has apparently been used in real life settings as guidance tool. Images, description and source code can be found on https://github.com/devanshr/epidemics The EpidemicsRunner allows the user to run various algorithms u…

Thank you for making public money sponsored code public. If you don't mind why was the software written in C++?

The code was written in C++ because of performance considerations of the ODE solvers.

Re: Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software

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Post by jonaz3d » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 1:50 PM UTC

Conan_Kudo wrote: post #7

jonaz3d wrote: post #2

Hello World! It appears the EpidemicsRunner software toolkit has been made open source. It was developed by a crossfunctional team of the German Goethe Center for Scientific Computation Universität and has apparently been used in real life settings as guidance tool. Images, description and source code can be found on https://github.com/devanshr/epidemics The EpidemicsRunner allows the user to run various algorithms u…

There's no license on the codebase, could someone add an OSI-approved license to this codebase? UG4 itself is LGPLv3 ( https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.en.html ), so licensing this under the same terms would make sense.

A license will be added soon and will be probably very permissive

Re: Epidemics Plugin for the UG4 software

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Post by junon » Fri, Nov 26, 2021, 1:52 PM UTC

jonaz3d wrote: post #2

Hello World! It appears the EpidemicsRunner software toolkit has been made open source. It was developed by a crossfunctional team of the German Goethe Center for Scientific Computation Universität and has apparently been used in real life settings as guidance tool. Images, description and source code can be found on https://github.com/devanshr/epidemics The EpidemicsRunner allows the user to run various algorithms u…

Curious, where in the German government is this used? RKI or BMG perhaps?