Re: [Miase-discuss] new name for "MIASE-ML"

[Nicolas Le N. <le...@eb...>]

Henning Schmidt wrote:
> Just again ... if MIASE also targets at the representation of plots ...
> and people want to plot simulation results against measurement data ...
> 
> then "SIM" would not really be correct ... or?

Yes, it is. We can use experimental data at two different levels of the procedure: We can use them to find parameters. That is without doubt simulation work. And we can use them to plot the results of simulation against. If we describe how we take a model, how we modify it, how we run a simulation procedure using it, plotting the results is part of the job. Yes, I agree, we will stretch the notion of simulation a lot. Steady-state procedure are not strictly speaking simulations. But hey, we need a word ok? We could use Modeling Experiment Markup Language, but that would be very confusing IMHO. Not just because of confusion with SBML and MML, but also because we cover a tiny bit of modeling (think molecular modeling, etc.) 

> And if we decide to not include references to measurement data ... will we
> then develop a second MIASE type of representation format for simulation
> experiments that are used to plot figures ... this time INCLUDING
> measurement data?

Actually measurement data are just another kind of external data-set. So what we will probably end-up doing in Level 2 or whatever, will be to include facility to input numerical data which generation is not described in whateverML file. 

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