On 14.02.2012, at 23:15, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > Note that I think we should also consider Octave-Forge projects. > Please add Octave-Forge projects to the wiki as you deem appropriate.
Hi Jordi I do have an idea for an Octave-Forge project: Improve the "symbolic" package: - use objects & classes of Octave to enable stuff like overloaded methods for symbolic matrices. This could be done in C++ in a way similar to Michele Martone's new "sparsersb" package. - include the ginac library into the package such that there are no external libraries required. External libraries are often a pain in the proverbial on certain platforms. An example of included libraries is the "odepkg" package which includes some tgz archives that are compiled upon package installation. Maybe a simpler symbolic math program like mathomatic could be sufficient (instead of ginac). A possible application of the rewritten "symbolic" package: I'd like to create uncertain state-space models in the control package. One could specify variables with a nominal value and a deviation. Then the control package would transform the state-space model into an LFT consisting of a nominal plant and separate uncertainties. This is a tedious but frequent task in control engineering. But the symbolic package is also useful on its own. Best regards, Lukas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list Octave-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
