The Methods and Tools Special Interest Group met through web-conferencing from 5 pm till 7 pm Central European Time.

Agenda:

COBIA Threading model

Participants:

William BARRETT (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Jasper van BATEN (AmsterCHEM), Michael HLAVINKA (BR&E), Mark STIJNMAN (Shell Global Solutions), Michel PONS (CTO)

Summary:

The document proposing a new persistence mechanism for CAPE-OPEN and to specify / implement it in COBIA was revised according to the comments made by M. PONS earlier. A revised version came out of the conference call and is being circulated to the Methods & Tools SIG before handi,g it out to CO-LaN Managment Board. Then the participants engage into a discussion about the type of threading model that could be proposed for COBIA. Consensus was not reached on the proposal and a subsequent conference call is organized on September 20, 2017 to deal exclusively with this question.

Contact

Picture of Bill BARRETT (US EPA representative) in December 2018Contact Bill BARRETT (representative of US Environmental Protection Agency, leader of the Methods & Tools Special Interest Group) should you wish to join the Methods & Tools Special Interest Group. Its charter is: “Improve integration, and expand utilization of Computer-Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) applications within the enterprise through identification and resolution of existing cross-cutting issues with the CAPE-OPEN platform, develop mechanisms for use of CAPE within other application domains, and incorporate advances in information technology into the CAPE-OPEN platform.”