> >> I am interested in learning >> whether there is het another "meta"-level on top of that :-) >> Good, keep us posted! We happen to be doing the same thing in house the >> last week(s)... More difficult than I thought at the beginning to get it >> "right" _and_ "reusable" in more contexts than just this one of controller >> management. >> >> So, are you also implementing something similar?. >> > > yes! Azamat is taking the lead in this effort, and he showed me some > prototype. It is not yet clear when something workable can be released. > > > Are there any additional valuable lessons that can be shared?. >> > I don't know what you call 'valuable' but the main reason that started > Azamat's work is to get a computational support for "tree-structured > algorithms with multiple sweeps", such as: > - Model-Predictive Control > - Bayesian networks, Markov random fiels, Factor graphs > - control diagrams > - tree-structured dynamical systems > The common thing behind all these use cases are the things I mentioned: > separating the schedule from the model and the execution; generate code > from a domain-independent 'template implementation' with domain-dependent > plug-in functions; (immutable) data management; deployment onto various > software "containers". I'll keep an open eye on his work. The scope of his work is much broader than what I'm attempting here. Adolfo.