2020 March Release

FOQUS 3.5.0 March 2020 Release

Start with our online documentation to get started with install instructions, examples, etc.

3.5.0 Release Highlights:

• New pip installer
• Documentation improvements
• Various bugfixes
• AWS FOQUS parallel computing improvements

2019 December Release patch #1

FOQUS 3.4 December 2019 Release

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3.4.1 Patch release

• Fix pandas version to 0.25.3

3.4.0 Release Highlights

• SDOE: The addition of the NUSF (non-uniform space filling) approach
• Running FOQUS on AWS: Additional testing and improvements
• Optimization: Improvements in the presentation of the results
• Documentation improvements
• Fixing the UQ Analyze tab for analysis post saving a session, and surrogate model validation
• Improvements in the Optimization Tab – Additional optimization plot for mapping the actual behavior of a solver
• Fixing the ALAMO stop button
• Fixing Unit Tests (Automated Testing)
• Fixing the use of original FOQUS variable format within the simple objective function expression (in the optimization tab) for OUU

2019 September Release

FOQUS 3.3.0 September 2019 Release

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Release Highlights

• Documentation improvements and updates
• New FOQUS instructional videos on the CCSI2 Team YouTube channel, including how to use:
  • Flowsheet
  • Tear streams
  • Optimization
  • UQ
  • OUU
  • Surrogate models
  • SimSinter for uploading an Excel, Aspen Plus and ACM model to FOQUS
• FOQUS cloud rewrite/refactor for nodeJS 8.10 in the FaaS ( AWS lambda )
• 
Modifications to “turbine” client ( Turbine Web API Client ) supporting large file upload/downloads directly to AWS S3 via SignedURLs.
• New sets of documentation and tutorial files for:
  • SDOE (the robustness of this feature has been improved)
  • Heat Integration (modifications for Python 3 version of FOQUS)
  • Snobfit plugin (now available in Optimization)
  • Pyomo (FOQUS can now run Pyomo for performing optimization)
• Fixed a bug in UQ that prevents the user from analyzing the ensemble data
• Improvements in the robustness of the tear stream solver in Flowsheet
• Improvements in OUU:
  • OUU can now be done for a single node
  • Using OUU no longer requires Windows users to modify the registry keys
• Removal of the "Basic Data" tab (not being used by developers or users)
• Reorganization of examples to better align with tutorials

2019 June Release

FOQUS June 2019 Release

• Start with our online documentation to get started with install instructions, examples, etc.

Release highlights:

SDoE improvements, including:

• Improved plotting capabilities where the user can plot historical data and design data in the same figure so they can assess their design
• "Add New" button where the user can use an existing UQ capability to create their own samples using psuade
• New wording and layout presentation in the SDoE user interface
• Progress bar when creating designs

General improvements, including

• Documentation on how to upload CSV file to automatically run a set of inputs
• Updates to YouTube videos on installation and use
• Various minor bug-fix/stability improvements.

2019 May Release

FOQUS May 2019 release highlights:

After the transition from Python 2 to Python 3, we can confirm that the Python 3 version of FOQUS can:

• Run the Flowsheet
• Perform optimization
• Perform UQ
• Perform SDOE
• Generate surrogate models, including ALAMO, ACOSSO, and BSS-ANOVA

Additional improvements:

• Improvements to the tear stream convergence method
• Remote Turbine can run in a local machine (e.g., a single computer with multiple processors)
• Cloud backend was ported to NodeJS 8.10 (the 6.10 version lifetime expired on May 31)
• Documentation updates
• Fixed AppVeyor issues
• Improvements in FOQUS Flowsheet table:
  • Delete Row now works
  • Fixed row to flowsheet problem
• Auto button for edge editor working again
• Progress on running parallel simulations using FOQUS and AWS
• New videos on YouTube:
  • Installing FOQUS with python 3
  • New playlists for python 2 vs 3 and optional software installation

2019 Feb Release

Improvements in this release:

• Transition from Python 2 to Python 3
• New SDOE (Sequential Design of Experiments) GUI (Graphical User Interface)
• Updates on documentation
• Online documentation now hosted at ReadTheDocs
• Turbine fixes
• New filtering/sorting method for the Flowsheet Table
• New method to generate samples using full factorial in Optimization
• Progress on running FOQUS with Remote Turbine/AWS (Amazon Web Service)
• Improvement to OUU (Optimization Under Uncertainty):
• Automatic cleaning of temporary PSUADE files in FOQUS user directory
• Bug fixes in UQ (Uncertainty Quantification):
• We can now successfully upload CSV files containing samples to run in UQ

2019 Feb Release candidate 1

Improvements in this release:

• Transition from Python 2 to Python 3
• New SDOE (Sequential Design of Experiments) GUI (Graphical User Interface)
• Updates on documentation
• Turbine fixes
• New filtering/sorting method for the Flowsheet Table
• New method to generate samples using full factorial in Optimization
• Progress on running FOQUS with Remote Turbine/AWS (Amazon Web Service)
• Improvement to OUU (Optimization Under Uncertainty):
• Automatic cleaning of temporary PSUADE files in FOQUS user directory
• Bug fixes in UQ (Uncertainty Quantification):
• We can now successfully upload CSV files containing samples to run in UQ

2018 Nov Release

• Improvement to Turbine for Aspen simulations ending in warnings
• Improvements to documentation including video installation guide.
• Addition of SDOE routines into FOQUS, initial GUI coming in next release.
• Improvements to OUU constraint handling
• FIPS compliance
• Various bug fixes, testing and documentation improvements
• Improvement to the UQ tab for loading samples as a CSV file
• Improvements to AWS Gateway integration and documentation

2018 August Release

Incremental Release of FOQUS development:

• Added Anaconda environment for running within
• Support for newest pandas version
• Added link in front README to PDF documentation
• Testing improvements
• Several small bug fixes

2018 July Release

Incremental release of FOQUS development.

• Making progress on integrating SDOE into FOQUS
• Improved automated testing of FOQUS
• Several bugs fixed
• Improved documentation
• Initial Integration of FOQUS UI with AWS FOQUS cloud