Contributing to project

[joostm8]

Hi Yves,

At my workplace we had implemented a couple of these distance measures in the context of model validation and were thinking of putting it all in a module to host online.

Today I was glad to stumble upon this project on github, as it is much more complete than what we have. Rather than reinvent the wheel I figured I should make some contributions to this project instead.

I took a look at the CONTRIBUTING.md file, but as far as I can see this is not quite complete, as the source code is not in the repository on github? I would also be interesting to see the source code for tests as well to write appropriate tests.

Of the true distance measures we have, I can contribute the mLCSS (modified LCSS for sequences of floating point numbers instead of strings).

I could also contribute some implementations of validation metrics, e.g. such as found in Mahadevan and Rebba or Oberkampf and Barone, though they measure the similarity between an experiment and a simulation trace, perhaps they stray a bit too far away from true distance measures?

All the best,

Joost

[ym001]

Hi Joost,

Thank you very much for your message and your interest in the project! I would be very happy to collaborate with you on the LCSS distance measure and other metrics. Your experience in model validation and your potential contributions, such as the mLCSS and validation metrics, would be incredibly valuable to the project.

I understand your concerns regarding the CONTRIBUTING.md file and the absence of source code in the repository. I would be glad to discuss all of this in more detail. To facilitate our communication, please feel free to reach out to me via email at (dev.distancia@gmail.com).

Looking forward to collaborating with you!

Best regards,

Yves