BioGears 8.0 RoadMap

Core Library

BioGears core library represents libbiogears libbiogears_cdm and libbiogears_circuit_test

Physiology Improvements

Back-end Improvements

Feature Enhancements

• Availability of Event Callback(Delegates, Signal/Slots)
  • Lambda based event handling to simplify front in integration with physiology
• FileIO fallback library for imbedded development
  • New library for embedded development to reduce mandatory fileIO
• Deprecate ScenarioExec
  • Expose new Physiology Driver Framework
• Scenario Language 2.0
• Support for logic control structures (Branch, Loop)
• Action Interval fields (Reduce number of advance model time actions)
• Language Hooks
  • C Interface
  • C# and Python hooks

API Changes

• Merging of BioGears and BioGearsEngine
  • Standardize naming of accessor functions for SESystem* returns and concreate system implementations.
  • Eliminate multi enharatance which is confusing in the API layer.
• General API Changes / Modernization
  • Return type changes
  • C++11 style changes
• Serialization Overhaul
  • Replacement of XML with JSON based format
  • Removal of serialization details from API layer

Refactoring and quality of life changes.

• Audit of third-party dependencies
  • Replaces Xerces-c and XSD Code Synthesis with libprotobuf
  • Replace log4cpp with internal logging code.
• Scalar Unit Refactor and Replacement
  • Expose arithmetic operators for SEScalar types
  • Migrate internal model code to arithmetic operators.
• Uniform error/exception policy
  • Catch all third party exceptions and expose them as BioGears Error type
  • Eliminate CDM exceptions in favor of Error model.
• Uniform memory ownership model.
  • Clarify when ownership is assumed by the library for passed objects
  • Expose copy and move constructors for all types to simplify semantics
• Substance Definition Class
  • New class for storing const substance definitions.
  • Eliminate need for Substance Manager to be passed to many classes.