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[Fwd: Offer of fitter class collection] (lhcb-comp)

From: Pavel.Binko@cern.ch
Date: 8/16/99
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Reply-To: Andreas Pfeiffer <Andreas.Pfeiffer@cern.ch>
Hello Joe,
   that sounds good.  For a better judgement, I would like to get more
details ... where can I find the docs ?
		cheers,   andreas

> Joe Boudreau has a collection of very general fitter classes in well-though-out > C++ design. Some examples a Kaalman filter, progressive fitters, linear > fitters, scatters, ... > > These classes of fitting engines are quite general, not making reference to > specifics like track/vertex/ or stock-price or satelite trajectory... though > the routines can be used in any of these contexts. > > These have been extensively tested and battle-tested in the context of CDF > reconstruction; they work on a fair variety of platforms already. > > I am thinking that this would be an excellent new package in CLHEP. It would > depend on CLHEP Matrix (since it already uses that). Joe B. also is amenable > to being the editor of this package; I have briefly described what that entails. > > Since the package is pretty much ready, he might want to try to get it in on > time even for the next CLHEP release; or certainly for the one after. Joe's > email address is boudreau@fnal.gov. > > Concretely, I am proposing > to open a new "Fitting" package, > to invite Dr. Boudreau as the editor of that package, > to give him repository acccess as soon as it is decided to > go this route (he has account at CERN on hpplus already) > and he wants to try to get this in to a release of CLHEP > around September (or whenever the next release happens at that > point. > > If anybody has comments about this, please circulate them... > > Mark Fischler -- --------------------------------------------------------------- | Andreas Pfeiffer, CERN IT/ASD, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland | | GSM : +41-79-201-4180 e-mail : Andreas.Pfeiffer@cern.ch | | phone : +41-22-76-75029 fax : +41-22-76-78630 | --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------5C094C40EE988155D4E97AE7--