727: Add a Generic application option for using an arbitrary simulation model

[bluemodel-bot]

Original bug ID	727
Reported by	froehlich on 2020-02-14
Affects version	1.7
Component	Allgemein
Severity	enhancement
Priority	P1
Milestone	1.8
Assigned to	froehlich
Status	ASSIGNED

Comments:

froehlich on 2020-02-14:

A Generic application option could allow the user to be able to use almost any simulation model he wants.

Basic idea and points to consider:

• the user specifies a batch file (*.bat) as part of the dataset. This batch file is executed by BlueM.Opt to start the simulation.
• For the objective functions, we must make it possible to specify an arbitrary file (with filename and relative path) and a position within that file (row, columns) for reading the objective function value.
• if we want to allow multithreading, BlueM.Opt has to copy the entire dataset folder to the thread folders. This folder must contain all files necessary for simulation (possibly also the model exe). This also requires that the model relies only on relative paths.
  Shouldnt be too hard to implement.

froehlich on 2020-02-14:

I have started implementing this in /branches/bug727