Re: [cellml-discussion] Question on community's preferred way to resolve CellML 1.1 identifier contradiction

2007-11-21 Thread Poul Nielsen
Dear Andrew I hope that I am interpreting the EBNF notation correctly (although the expression seems to be BNF, not EBNF - although W3C seems to use the BNF notation). Doesn't identifier ::= ('_')* ( letter ) ( letter | '_' | digit )* indicate that any number of '_' symbols may form the

Re: [cellml-discussion] A list of proposed changes to semantics to makein CellML 1.2

2007-12-23 Thread Poul Nielsen
. Best wishes Poul On 2007 Dec 22, at 20:21, Jonathan Cooper wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:19:52AM +1300, Poul Nielsen wrote: I think that Jonathan is correct - the concept of 'in' and 'out' does not make sense in a declarative description. One way to remedy this would be to remove

Re: [cellml-discussion] Survey on opinions for the backwards compatibility levels for future CellML Specs

2008-01-08 Thread Poul Nielsen
I think that the best policy is to evolve CellML toward a clean and simple specification. I don't think that this means that we require a complete break with previous specifications at each major iteration if, for example, we use deprecated/obsolescent flags. I believe that it is

Re: [cellml-discussion] Survey on opinions for the backwards compatibility levels for future CellML Specs

2008-01-09 Thread Poul Nielsen
On 2008 Jan 09, at 14:49, Andrew Miller wrote: Poul Nielsen wrote: I think that the best policy is to evolve CellML toward a clean and simple specification. I don't think that this means that we require a complete break with previous specifications at each major iteration if, for example

[cellml-discussion] CellML: Core specification proposal handling

2008-03-20 Thread Poul Nielsen
a stated period of time (typically 1 or 2 weeks). • After this period the proposal is considered by a Specification Proposals Panel for acceptance, rejection, or deferral by a majority vote. • The Specification Proposals Panel will initially consist of David Nickerson, Alan Garny, Poul Nielsen

Re: [cellml-discussion] Using CellML for simplified neuron models? (Alan Garny)

2009-06-04 Thread Poul Nielsen
Dear Hans Thank you for raising this. It s, in fact, one of the issues discussed at the recent combined CellML SBGN-SBO BioPAX MIASE Workshop held this April on Waiheke Island. There is a clear need to be able to specify discontinuous processes and events, such as you have described.

Re: [cellml-discussion] Leftover thoughts from the CellML workshop

2010-03-10 Thread Poul Nielsen
Dear Lucian Many thanks for your participation in the CellML workshop and subsequent comments. On 2010-02-27, at 08:43, Lucian Smith wrote: Thanks to all of you who were at the workshop for letting me attend remotely. I found it quite valuable, and hope you didn't mind me asking you all