Project Plan For Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler, version 2.0.0
Introduction
The Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler (STEM) tool is designed to
help scientists and public health officials create and use
spatial and temporal models of emerging infectious diseases. These models
could aid in understanding, and potentially preventing,
the spread such diseases.
Release Deliverables
STEM is delivered as an Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP)
application runnable on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms. It
requires a Java 6 or later JVM. The STEM application includes tools
for designing, simulating, and analyzing epidemiological models.
STEM contains a wealth of prepackaged data in the form of existing
disease models and simulations as well as geographic/demographic data
for
the world.
The 2.0.0 release planning:
- Integrated UI for creating new models of disease including domain specific language for epi modeling
- parameter sensitivity analysis
- mcmc optimizer
- New Food Distribution Analysis view (incubation)
- New Apache library
Release Milestones
Here is the timeline for the current STEM release cycle.
| 1.2.2 | 09/07/2011 | Release 1.2.2 |
| 1.2.3 | 11/21/2011 | Release 1.2.3 |
| 1.3.0 | 02/07/2012 | Release 1.3.0 |
| 1.3.1 | 05/01/2012 | Release 1.3.1 |
| 1.4.0 | 09/25/2012 | Release 1.4.0 |
| 1.4.1 | 12/14/2012 | Release 1.4.1 |
| 2.0.0 M1 | 04/02/2013 | 2.0.0 M1 (milestone complete) |
| 2.0.0 M2 | 05/13/2013 | 2.0.0 M2 (milestone complete) |
| 2.0.0 M3 | 06/18/2013 | 2.0.0 M2 (planned milestone) |
| 2.0.0 | 10/15/2013 | Release 2.0.0 (planned release) |
Target Environments
STEM runs on 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
platforms. It is built using Eclipse 3.6 and requires Java 6 or
later.
Internationalization
STEM currently has partial National Language Support for several languages.
NLS resources for STEM are managed through Eclipse Babel and additional translations
can be contributed through the Babel Project (http://eclipse.org/babel/).
Compatibility with Previous Releases
STEM 1.4.1 supports models and scenarios created using STEM
1.4.0 release.
Themes and Priorities
Work with users to extend STEM to support work on the most
important current problems in epidemiology and public health.
Hiding Complexity
In 2013 we will work to hide the complexity of Eclipse EMF and make is easy for any subject matter expert to create new models.
Food borne Disease
We will continues to evolve the STEM framework to support modeling of food production and food borne diseases