Roadmap

• Milestone: mystic-0.2a2

  11 months late (06/10/15)

  92%

  Number of tickets:

  closed:

  82

  active:

  7

  Total:

  89

  Second alpha version for second minor release.

  Highlights

  Solvers:

  • Enhanced One-Line

  API:

  • solver restarts
  • parameter constraints
  • parameter penalties
  • methods for monitors, map functions, etc.

  Tools:

  • math tools for statistics
  • discrete measures
  • constraint function generator
  • penalty function generator
  • symbolic math support
  • convergence plotter
  • hypercube plotter
  • scenario plotter

  Issues

  A list of resolved issues is  here.

• Milestone: mystic-0.3a

  5 months late (12/10/15)

  0%

  Number of tickets:

  closed:

  0

  active:

  43

  Total:

  43

  Third alpha version for second minor release.

  Highlights

  Solvers:

  • Least Squares
  • Parallel Buckshot
  • Parallel Lattice
  • Asynchronous Iterations

  API:

  • concentration-of-measures uncertainty quantification
  • optimal uncertainty quantification
  • parameter sensitivity ( movie)

  Tools:

  • model factories
  • contour plotter
  • database lookup

  Issues

  A list of resolved issues is  here.

• Milestone: mystic-0.4a

  Due in 3 weeks (06/10/16)

  0%

  Number of tickets:

  closed:

  0

  active:

  23

  Total:

  23

  First alpha version for third minor release.

  Highlights

  Solvers:

  • Quasi-Newton BFGS
  • Nonlinear Conjugate Gradient
  • Newton-CG
  • Simulated Annealing
  • Branch and Bound
  • Particle Swarm
  • Parallel Conditional
  • Parallel Probabilistic

  API:

  • derivative, gradient, and hessian capture
  • parameter correlation
  • simultaneous fitting using parameter constraints

  Tools:

  • domain decomposition
  • performance testing suite

  Issues

  A list of resolved issues is  here.

• Milestone: mystic-0.5a

  Due in 7 months (12/10/16)

  0%

  Number of tickets:

  closed:

  0

  active:

  15

  Total:

  15

  Second alpha version for third minor release.

  Highlights

  Solvers:

  • Convex

  API:

  • uncertainty quantification with existing data
  • improved monitoring and control of optimization jobs
  • monitoring of parallel and distributed optimization jobs
  • replace signal handler with event handler
  • launching of solver 'circuit' (parallel, series, etc.)

  Tools:

  • failure testing suite

  Issues

  A list of resolved issues is  here.

• Milestone: mystic-dev

  No date set

  0%

  Number of tickets:

  closed:

  0

  active:

  22

  Total:

  22

  In-development effort.

  Solvers:

  • Metropolis
  • Support Vector Machines

  API:

  • programmatic interface to control handler commands
  • control of parallel and distributed optimization jobs
  • improved control of job schedulers
  • design of experiments

  Tools:

  • configurable n-variable monitors

  Issues

  A list of resolved issues is  here.