my-mosaik 2.7.0
Mosaik is a flexible Smart-Grid co-simulation framework.

Mosaik
======

Mosaik is a simulation compositor for Smart Grid simulations.

It lets you re-use existing simulators and couple them to simulate large-scale
Smart Grid scenarios. Mosaik offers powerful mechanisms to specify and compose
these scenarios.

Version: 2.5.2

License: LGPL

Example
-------

A simple demo scenario with mosaik::

   >>> import mosaik
   >>>
   >>> sim_config = {
   ...     'ExampleSim': {'python': 'example_sim.mosaik:ExampleSim'},
   ... }
   >>>
   >>> def create_scenario(world):
   ...     simulator_1 = world.start('ExampleSim')
   ...     simulator_2 = world.start('ExampleSim')
   ...
   ...     a_set = [simulator_1.A(init_val=0) for i in range(3)]
   ...     b_set = simulator_2.B.create(2, init_val=0)
   ...
   ...     for i, j in zip(a_set, b_set):
   ...         world.connect(i, j, ('val_out', 'val_in'))
   >>>
   >>> world = mosaik.World(sim_config)
   >>> create_scenario(world)
   >>> world.run(until=2)
   Progress: 25.00%
   Progress: 50.00%
   Progress: 75.00%
   Progress: 100.00%


Installation
------------

Mosaik requires Python >= 3.4. Use `pip`__ to install it, preferably into
a `virtualenv`__::

    $ pip install mosaik

__ http://pip.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installing.html
__ http://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Documentation, Source Code and Issues
-------------------------------------

The documentation is available at https://mosaik.readthedocs.io.

Please report bugs and ideas for improvement to our `issue tracker`__.

__ https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik/issues


Changelog
=========

2.5.2 - 2019-11-01
------------------

- [NEW] Special characters are now allowed in path names
- [NEW] Compatible to the new versions of networkx
- [CHANGE] python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 are currently supported, python 3.4 and 3.5 not anymore.
- [FIX] Various minor internal changes
- [FIX] Various documentation updates and fixes

2.5.1 - 2018-11-29
------------------

- [NEW] When calling the world.start() command for a simulator, users can now set a predefined
  value for the posix flag (e.g. True) to prevent automatic detection of the operating system.
  This facilitates the creation of some co-simulation cases across OS (e.g. Windows and Linux).

2.5.0 - 2018-09-05
------------------

- [NEW] Connection option "time_shifted" added as alternative to async_requests. This will
  make creating cyclic data dependencies between simulators more usable since usage of
  set_data with an API implementation will no longer be needed.

2.4.0 - 2017-12-06
------------------

- [NEW] Compatible to the new versions of networkx, simpy and simpy.io
- [CHANGE] python 3.4, 3.5 and 3.6 are currently supported python 3.3 is no longer supported
- [FIX] Various bug fixes

2.3.0 - 2016-04-26
------------------

- [NEW] Allow passing environment vars to sup processes
- [FIX] Fixed a bug in the version validation which raised an error when using
  a floating point for the version

2.2.0 - 2016-02-15
------------------

- [NEW] API version 2.2: Added an optional "setup_done()" method.

- [CHANGE] API version validation: The API version is no longer an integer but
  a "major.minor" string.  The *major* part has to match with mosaik's major
  version. The *minor* part may be lower or equal to mosaik's minor version.

- [FIX] Various minor fixes and stability improvements.

- [FIX] Various documentation updates and fixes.

2.1.2 – 2014-10-29
------------------

- [FIX] ``World.shutdown()`` now checks if the socket still exists before
  attempting to close it.

- [FIX] Fixed a bug that made the last extra method of a simulator shadow all
  previous ones.

2.1.1 – 2014-10-28
------------------

- [NEW] ``World.run()`` now prints a warning if you forget to connect
  a simulator's entities.
- [FIX] Fixed some problems with the data-flow cache.

2.1 – 2014-10-24
----------------

- [NEW] Mosaik can now perform real-time simulations. Before, this
  functionality needed to be implemented by simulators. Now it’s just
  ``World.run(until=x, rt_factor=y)``, where ``rt_factor`` defines the
  simulation speed relative to the wall-clock time (`issue #24`).

- [NEW] Simulators can now expose extra methods via their API that can be
  called from a mosaik scenario. This allows you to, e.g., store static data in
  a data base. These extra API methods need to be specified in the simulator’s
  meta data (`issue #26`_).

- [NEW] ``util.connect_many_to_one()`` helper function.

- [NEW] More and better documentation:

  - Tutorial for integrating simulators, control strategies and for creating
    scenarios.

  - Sim API description

  - Scenario API description

  - Sim Manager documentation

  - Scheduler documentation

  - Discussion of design decisions

  - Logo, colors, CI

- [NEW] Added ``util.sync_call()`` which eases calling proxied methods of
  a simulator synchronously.

- [CHANGE] The *rel* attribute in the entity description returned by *create()*
  is now optional.

- [CHANGE] Moved proxied methods from ``SimProxy`` to ``SimProxy.proxy`` in
  order to avoid potential name clashes with other attributes.

- [CHANGE] Check a simulator’s models and extra API methods for potential name
  clashes with the built-in API methods.

- [CHANGE] The argument *execution_graph* of ``World`` was renamed to *debug*.
  The execution graph now also stores the time after a simulation step (in
  addition to the time before the step).

- [FIX] `issue #22`_: The asynchronous requests *get_data()* and *set_data()*
  now check if the ``async_requests`` flag was set in ``World.connect()``.

- [FIX] `issue #23`_: *finalize()* is now called for in-process Python
  simulators.

- [FIX] `issue #27`_: Dramatically improved simulation performance (30 times as
  fast in some cases) if simulators use different step sizes (e.g. 1 minute and
  1 hour) by improving some internal data structures.

.. _`issue #22`: https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik/issue/22/
.. _`issue #23`: https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik/issue/23/
.. _`issue #24`: https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik/issue/24/
.. _`issue #26`: https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik/issue/26/
.. _`issue #27`: https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik/issue/27/


2.0 – 2014-09-22
----------------

- Mosaik 2 is a complete rewrite of mosaik 1 in order to improve its
  maintainability and flexibility.

- Removed features:

  - The *mosl* DSL (including Eclipse xtext and Java) are now gone. Mosaik now
    only uses Python.

  - Mosaik now longer has executables but is now used as a library.

  - The platform manager is gone.

  - The database is now a separate package, see `mosaik-hdf5`__.

  - The old web UI is gone.

- Mosaik now consists of four core components with the following feature sets:

  - mosaik Sim API

    - The API has bean cleaned up and simplified.

    - Simulators and control strategies share the same API.

    - There are only four calls from mosaik to a simulator: *init*, *create*,
      *step* and *get_data*.

    - Simulators / processes can make asynchronous requests to mosaik during a
      step: *get_progress*, *get_related_entities*, *get_data*, *set_data*.

    - ZeroMQ with JSON is replaced by plain network sockets with JSON.

  - Scenarios:

    - Pure Python is now used to describe scenarios. This offers you more
      flexibility to create complex scenarios.

    - Scenario creation simplified: Start a simulator to get a model factory.
      Use the factory to create model instances (*entities*). Connect entities.
      Run simulation.

    - Connection rules are are no based on a primitive *connect* function that
      only connects two entities with each other. On top of that, any
      connection strategy can be implemented.

  - Simulation Manager:

    - Simulators written in Python 3 can be executed *in process*.

    - Simulators can be started as external processes.

    - Mosaik can connect to an already running instance of a simulator. This
      can be used as a replacement for the now gone platform manager.

  - Simulation execution:

    - The simulation is now event-based. No schedule and no synchronization
      points need to be computed.

    - Simulators can have different and varying step sizes.

- Mosaik ecosystem:

  - A high-level implementation of the mosaik 2 API currently exists for
    Python__ and Java__.

  - *mosaik-web* is a simple visualization for mosaik simulations. See
    https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik-web.

  - *mosaik-pypower* is an adapter for the *PYPOWER* load flow analysis
    library. See https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik-pypower and
    https://github.com/rwl/PYPOWER.

  - *mosaik-csv* and *mosaik-householdsim* are simple demo simulators that you
    can use to "simulate" CSV data sets and load-profile based households. See
    https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik-csv and
    https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik-householdsim.

  - There is a repository containing a simple demo scenario for mosaik. See
    https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik-demo.


 You can find information about older versions on the `history page`__

__ https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik-hdf5
__ https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik-api-python
__ https://bitbucket.org/mosaik/mosaik-api-java
__ https://mosaik.readthedocs.org/en/latest/about/history.html


Authors
=======

The original concepts for mosaik were developed by Steffen Schütte and Stefan
Scherfke.

The author of mosaik version 2 is Stefan Scherfke.

Okko Nannen and Florian Schloegl joined the team in May / July 2014.
André El-Ama joined the Team Juli / 2017