Change Log

History

  • v3.1.0 (2023-12-03)
    • Server schedules now defined with objects.

    • Slotted services feature added, with capacitated and non-capacitated slots, and pre-emption options.

    • Rename ‘continue’ pre-emption option to ‘resume’.

    • Allows simultaneous renegeing customers.

    • Internal refactoring.

  • v3.0.2 (2023-11-14)
    • Fix bug where simulation errors if fist event of a node is a shift change.

    • Minor docstring and documentation changes.

    • Default statetracker is now None.

  • v3.0.1 (2023-10-31)
    • Fix bug where class change individual not reset after preemption.

  • v3.0.0 (2023-08-22)
    • Adds service disciplines - FIFO, LIFO, SIRO and ability for custom disciplines.

    • Removes baulking and rejection dictionaries, these are recorded as DataRecords.

    • Adds an optional filter to Q.get_all_records to filter only records of given types.

    • Removes ciw.dists.NoArrivals, can just use None.

    • Removes ability to write to file and read from file.

    • Allows any string to represent customer classes.

    • Api changes to class_change_matrices and class_change_distributions

    • ciw.trackers.NodeClassMatrix now required a class_ordering keyword to ordet the arbitrary customer class string names.

    • Performance improvements.

  • v2.3.7 (2023-04-06)
    • Adds Poisson, Geometric, and Binomial distributions for batching.

  • v2.3.6 (2023-02-16)
    • Writes a data record for interrupted services caused by server schedules.

    • Raises an error when an inconsistant number of custom node classes are used.

  • v2.3.5 (2023-02-07)
    • Fixes bug caused when implementing preemptive priority classes and server schedules that take all servers off duty.

  • v2.3.4 (2022-12-07)
    • PoissonIntervals distribution now allows rates of zero

  • v2.3.2 (2022-10-07)
    • Add PoissonIntervals distribution

    • Add numpy random generator, ciw.seed now also creates new random generator

    • Documentation on parallelising trials

    • Remove support for Python 3.6

  • v2.3.1 (2022-07-25)
    • Fixes bug where blocked customers were candidates for finish_service when more than one customer finishes service simultaneously

    • Correctly writes csv’s in Windows

    • Support for Python 3.9 by updating tqdm requirement

  • v2.3.0 (2022-05-10)
    • Reneging customers implemented

    • Customer class changes while waiting implemented

    • Preemptive interruption options implemented

    • New record_type field added to DataRecords

  • v2.2.4 (2022-03-02)
    • Improve docs on pausing simulations and server priorities

    • Record server ID in the DataRecords

    • Move CI to GitHub Actions

  • v2.2.3 (2022-01-27)
    • Server priority functions implemented.

  • v2.2.2 (2021-12-17)
    • State trackers now take objects not indices

    • Servers are attached to individuals before sampling service times

    • Docs on sever-dependant distributions

    • Docs on DES+SD hybrid simulations

  • v2.2.1 (2021-11-04)
    • PhaseType distributions implemented

    • Classes for specific PhaseType distributions: Erlang, HyperExponential, HyperErlang, and Coxian

  • v2.2.0 (2021-07-22)
    • Processor sharing implemented (limited and capacitated)

    • Ability to use a different node_class per node of the network

    • State tracking now works with simulate_until_max_customers

    • Remove testing on Python 3.5

  • v2.1.3 (2020-10-06)
    • Small refactor to Node adding new servers, and to Individuals receiving the Simulation object.

    • Add a library of custom behaviour to docs

    • Support Python 3.8, update hypothesis

  • v2.1.2 (2020-09-26)
    • Ability to incorporate customer behaviour Server and Individual classes.

  • v2.1.1 (2020-05-27)
    • State Trackers slightly more efficent, they do not record any state changes that result in the same state as before.

    • Add the NodePopulationSubset tracker.

    • Distribution objects can now see the Simulation object, for true state dependent distributions.

  • v2.1.0 (2020-04-23)
    • State Trackers now track history

    • State Trackers give state probabilities

    • A number of performance improvements

    • Fix some documentation

    • Test on PyPy3.6 and Python 3.7 too

  • v2.0.1 (2019-07-17)
    • setup.py now finds packages to fix pip install bug

  • v2.0.0 (2019-07-10)
    • Large refactor:

    • Drop support for Python 2.7, Python 3.4.

    • Update networkx and pyyaml requirements.

    • Refactor time so that Simulation has current_time attribute.

    • Change Transition_matrices keyword to routing.

    • routing can take a process-based routing function.

    • Refactor distributions to be objects: [‘Exponential’, 0.5] -> ciw.dists.Exponential(0.5).

    • Distribution objects can be manipulated with +, -, * and /.

    • All keywords lower case to conform to Pep8.

    • deadlock_detector keyword takes object, not string.

    • tracker keyword takes object, not string.

    • Add tests and docs to show how objects can be used for state-dependent distributions.

    • All user facing api now takes float(‘inf’) not ‘Inf’, expect for .yml files.

    • Reference Ciw paper in docs.

    • Add AUTHORS.rst to docs.

  • v1.1.6 (2018-10-22)
    • Fixed bug in which preemptively iterrupted individuals remained blocked once service resampled.

    • Fixed bug in which interrupted individuals not removed from interrupted list when restarting service.

    • Some performance improvements.

    • Improve deadlock detection to check for knots less often.

  • v1.1.5 (2018-01-11)
    • Fixed bug calculating the utilisation of servers.

  • v1.1.4 (2017-12-12)
    • Time dependent batching distributions

    • Hard pin requirements versions

  • v1.1.3 (2017-08-18)
    • Replace DataRecord object with namedtuple.

    • Number of minor tweaks for speed improvements.

  • v1.1.2 (2017-07-05)
    • Batch arrivals.

  • v1.1.1 (2017-06-23)
    • Server utilisation & overtime.

    • Small fixes to docs.

    • Testing on Python 3.6.

  • v1.1.0 (2017-04-26)
    • Replace kwargs with actual keyword arguments in ciw.create_network.

    • Refactor server schedule inputs (schedules placed inside Number_of_servers instead of as their own keyword).

  • v1.0.0 (2017-04-04)
    • ciw.create_network takes in kwargs, not dictionary.

    • Add Sequential distribution.

    • Add truncated Normal distribution.

    • Refactor inputs for custom PDF.

    • Refactor inputs for server schedules.

    • Transition matrix now optional for 1 node networks.

    • Overhaul of documentation.

    • Add CONTRIBUTING.rst.

    • Slight improvement of ciw.random_choice.

  • v0.2.11 (2017-03-13)
    • Add ability to simulate until max number of customers have passed arrived/been accepted/passed through the system.

  • v0.2.10 (2017-03-10)
    • Performance improvements.

    • Drop dependency on numpy.

  • v0.2.9 (2017-02-24)
    • Allow zero servers.

  • v0.2.8 (2016-11-10)
    • Add option for time dependent distributions.

  • v0.2.7 (2016-10-26)
    • Run tests on Appveyor.

    • Check docs build and pip installable on Travis.

    • Remove hypothesis cache.

  • v0.2.6 (2016-10-17)
    • Add AUTHORS.rst.

    • Add progress bar option.

  • v0.2.5 (2016-10-06)
    • Fix bug that didn’t include .rst files in MANIFEST.in.

  • v0.2.4 (2016-09-27)
    • Fixed bug in which priority classes and dynamic classes didn’t work together.

    • New feature: preemptive interruptions for server schedules.

  • v0.2.3 (2016-07-27)
    • Ability to set seed. More docs. Fixes to tests.

  • v0.2.2 (2016-07-06)
    • Baulking implemented, and minor fixes to order of unblocking.

  • v0.2.1 (2016-06-29)
    • Priority classes implemented.

  • v0.2.0 (2016-06-20)
    • Python 3.4 and 3.5 compatible along with 2.7.

    • Data records now kept in list.

  • v0.1.1 (2016-06-06)
    • Ability to incorporate behaviour nodes.

    • Data records are now named tuples.

  • v0.1.0 (2016-04-25)
    • Re-factor inputs.

    • Simulation takes in a Network object.

    • Helper functions to import yml and dictionary to a Network object.

    • Simulation object takes optional arguments: deadlock_detector, exact, tracker.

    • simulate_until_max_time() takes argument max_simulation_time.

  • v0.0.6 (2016-04-04)
    • Exactness implemented.

    • Restructure some features e.g. times_to_deadlock.

    • Custom simulation names.

  • v0.0.5 (2016-03-18)
    • State space tracker plug-and-playable.

    • Add rejection dictionary.

  • v0.0.4 (2016-02-20)
    • Empirical and UserDefined distributions added.

    • Tidy ups.

  • v0.0.3 (2016-02-09)
    • Arrival distributions.

    • MMC options removed.

    • Fix server schedule bugs.

  • v0.0.2 (2016-01-06)
    • Some kwargs optional.

    • Hypothesis tests.

    • Minor enhancements.

  • v0.0.1 (2015-12-14)
    • Initial release.

  • v0.0.1dev (2015-12-14)
    • Initial release (dev).