Faacets Roadmap¶
This document presents the developement steps that will lead the Faacets platform to its first release. The goal of the first release is to incorporate support for most of the Bell expressions families presented in the recent review on Bell nonlocality BellReview. This includes most inequalities published in the litterature, i.e. nearly 300‘000 expressions.
Each milestone focuses on one part of the software, and is completed when the points contained have been discussed, coded, tested and documented.
The following artifacts are updated at the end of a Beta cycle:
- WEB: the Faacets website FaacetsWebsite
- DATA: the Faacets compendium data files FaacetsData
- CLI: the Faacets command line tool
- API: the Faacets Java library
- DOC: the Faacets documentation FaacetsDocs
Beta 1¶
Release date: February 2014
The current proof-of-concept prototype running FaacetsWebsite, launched during QIP 2014.
Some of the terminology is outdated compared to the more recent preprint (to appear on the arXiv).
Beta 2¶
Focus: file format specification and terminology
Points covered:
- the YAML file format for basic expression properties (scenario, representations, coefficients, decomposition, sources, names)
- organization and numbering of expressions in the compendium
At the end, the following parts of Faacets will be updated:
- WEB: display of expressions
- DATA: release of < 100 expressions in the stabilized format
- DOC: the YAML file format specification
- CLI: option to compute the decomposition of a YAML file and to compute automatically generated properties
Beta 3¶
Focus: how to add/manage expressions ?
Points covered:
- compendium management: structure of files/folders
- recomposition of expressions from decomposition and compendium information
- merging of canonical expressions
- command-line tools to manage, check, curate the compendium
- Java library to read/write YAML files from e.g. Matlab
- contribution process
Updates:
- DATA: completion of the compendium with 1‘000 of new expressions
- WEB: move to a virtual server
- DOC: Quick start guide “How to contribute”
- CLI: tools for compendium handling
Beta 4¶
Focus: browsing the compendium
Points covered:
- Website user interface
- Java API interface (access from e.g. Matlab)
Beta 5¶
Focus: scaling to 100‘000 expressions
Points covered:
- H2 database index
- stress testing
- compendium consultation