Picture of Jasper van BATEN, AmsterCHEM. 2020At the CAPE-OPEN 2014 Annual Meeting, Dr Jasper van BATEN (AmsterCHEM) presented, on behalf of Dr William BARRETT (US Environmental Protection Agency), the activity report of the Methods & Tools Special Interest Group (SIG) over the period from October 2013 till September 2014. This report has been prepared by the core group of the Methods & Tools SIG. It is available as PDF.

An Errata and Clarifications document on the Parameter Common interface specification is under development. Several of the points addressed so far in the errata document are listed.

An Errata and Clarifications document on the Identification Common interface specification has been developed, submitted to review by the CO-LaN membership and its public release has been requested to CO-LaN Management Board.

An Errata and Clarifications documents on the Collection Common interface specification has been developed, reviewed and authorized for public release by CO-LaN Management Board.

An Errata and Clarifications document on the Simulation Context COSE interface specification has been developed, reviewed and authorized for public release by CO-LaN Management Board.

The Errata and Clarifications document on the Utilities Common interface specification is near completion. It will especially contain a clarification on the life cycle of a Process Modelling Component.

Progress has been made on the Flowsheet Monitoring interface specification but there is not yet a firm target for a request for comments.

A preliminary timeline for the development of the CAPE-OPEN specific middleware (CAPE-OPEN Binary Interop Architecture) is proposed.