#24 Remove “asynchronous logical model simulation method” (kisao:KISAO_0000450) and “synchronous logical model simulation method” (kisao:KISAO_0000449)

[Dagmar Waltemath]

We suggest to depricate these terms, because the rather describe the update policy of the model than the actual simulation algorithm.

[Nicolas Le Novère]

But the update policy is a critical part of the logic modelling approach. Synchronous and asynchronous update will give different results (different state graphs).

Now, perhaps they should be parameters instead of algorithms.

[Dagmar Waltemath]

Indeed, see the other tickets I created. I should have mentioned it here: The idea is to remove the terms from the Algorithm branch and add the feature to the Characteristics branch (rahter than Parameters branch, actually)

[Nicolas Le Novère]

Adding them to the chararcteristics branch would not solve anything. You would still need two algorithms that bear those characteristics.

[Dagmar Waltemath]

Ok, so you would rather "double" the concepts and leave them in the algorithm branch as well as in the characteristics? This would be fine with me.

[Nicolas Le Novère]

We do not double the concepts. If synchronicity is a characteristics, synchronous and asynchronous are two different simulation algorithms. That would be different if there was a parameter called synchronicity that would take two values, synchronous and asynchronous.

In any case, those terms have been requested by the colomoto community, for use in SED-ML. I think they should be the one deciding at the end. Maybe this should be moved to sed-ml-discuss?

[Anna Zhukova]

Let's keep the terms for now then. I have added the sudgected characteristic terms.