volesti

volesti: A C++ library for sampling and volume computation on convex bodies - Published in JOSS (2025)

Science Score: 98.0%

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Published in Journal of Open Source Software

Keywords

cran finance geometry hit-and-run monte-carlo polyhedral-computations polytope random-walk sampling scientific-computing statistics volume

Keywords from Contributors

mesh evolutionary-algorithm genetic-algorithm

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Repository

Practical volume computation and sampling in high dimensions

Basic Info

Host: GitHub
Owner: GeomScale
License: lgpl-3.0
Language: C++
Default Branch: develop
Homepage:
Size: 90.9 MB

Statistics

Stars: 169
Watchers: 11
Forks: 146
Open Issues: 29
Releases: 14

Topics

cran finance geometry hit-and-run monte-carlo polyhedral-computations polytope random-walk sampling scientific-computing statistics volume

Created almost 10 years ago · Last pushed 5 months ago

Metadata Files

Readme Contributing License Code of conduct Citation

VolEsti is a C++ library for volume approximation and sampling of convex bodies (e.g. polytopes) with an R interface. For a limited Python interface we refer to package dingo. VolEsti is part of the GeomScale project.

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⭐ Credits

© Copyright and Licensing

You may redistribute or modify the software under the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.

Owner

Name: GeomScale
Login: GeomScale
Kind: organization
Email: geomscale@gmail.com
Location: Milky Way

Website: https://geomscale.github.io/
Twitter: GeomScale
Repositories: 14
Profile: https://github.com/GeomScale

Open-source development of scalable algorithms for geometric statistics

JOSS Publication

volesti: A C++ library for sampling and volume computation on convex bodies

Published

April 11, 2025

DOI

10.21105/joss.07886

Volume 10, Issue 108, Page 7886

Authors

Apostolos Chalkis

Quantagonia, Germany, GeomScale, Greece

Vissarion Fisikopoulos

National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, GeomScale, Greece

Marios Papachristou

Cornell University, U.S.A.

Elias Tsigaridas
Inria Paris and IMJ-PRG, Sorbonne Université, France, GeomScale, Greece

Editor

Olexandr Konovalov

Citation (CITATION.cff)

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  given-names: Vissarion
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0780-666X"
- family-names: Papachristou
  given-names: Marios
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1728-0729"
- family-names: Tsigaridas
  given-names: Elias
contact:
- family-names: Fisikopoulos
  given-names: Vissarion
  orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0780-666X"
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.15146338
message: If you use this software, please cite our article in the
  Journal of Open Source Software.
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    given-names: Apostolos
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  - family-names: Fisikopoulos
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    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0780-666X"
  - family-names: Papachristou
    given-names: Marios
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  - family-names: Tsigaridas
    given-names: Elias
  date-published: 2025-04-11
  doi: 10.21105/joss.07886
  issn: 2475-9066
  issue: 108
  journal: Journal of Open Source Software
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  start: 7886
  title: "volesti: A C++ library for sampling and volume computation on
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  url: "https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.07886"
  volume: 10
title: "volesti: A C++ library for sampling and volume computation on
  convex bodies"

GitHub Events

Total

Create event: 1
Commit comment event: 21
Release event: 1
Issues event: 13
Watch event: 21
Issue comment event: 55
Push event: 28
Pull request review comment event: 91
Pull request event: 38
Pull request review event: 97
Fork event: 38

Last Year

Create event: 1
Commit comment event: 21
Release event: 1
Issues event: 13
Watch event: 21
Issue comment event: 55
Push event: 28
Pull request review comment event: 91
Pull request event: 38
Pull request review event: 97
Fork event: 38

Committers

Last synced: 6 months ago

All Time

Total Commits: 725
Total Committers: 37
Avg Commits per committer: 19.595
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.459

Past Year

Commits: 32
Committers: 11
Avg Commits per committer: 2.909
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.813

Top Committers

Name	Email	Commits
tolischal	t**l@g**m	392
Vissarion Fisikopoulos	f**p@g**m	197
Vaibhav Thakkar	v**9@g**m	21
vfisikop	v**s@g**m	18
pedrozudo	p**s@g**m	10
Ioannis Emiris	e**s@i**c	7
AlexManochis	6****s	7
Panagiotis Repouskos	p**p@g**m	6
Marios Papachristou	p**s@g**m	6
Tolis	t**l@g**m	6
lucaperju	1****u	5
hariszaf	h**f@h**r	5
Zafeirakis Zafeirakopoulos	z**s@g**m	4
atrayees	1****s	4
Vladimir Necula	1****a	4
Ioannis Emiris	e**s@d**r	3
dymil	3****l	3
iakoviid	4****d	3
zhanggiene	z**3@g**m	2
Suraj Choubey	5****6	2
akisschinas	1****s	2
dependabot[bot]	4****]	2
Elias Tsigaridas	e**s@g**m	2
vfdev	v**5@g**m	1
swetsanjeev	7****v	1
congyu	6****1	1
Suraj Choubey	5****y	1
Soumya Tarafder	6****4	1
Sharat-Bhat	4****t	1
Pradumna Saraf	p**f@g**m	1
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Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)

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Issues and Pull Requests

Last synced: 4 months ago

All Time

Total issues: 50
Total pull requests: 165
Average time to close issues: 11 months
Average time to close pull requests: 2 months
Total issue authors: 27
Total pull request authors: 43
Average comments per issue: 3.46
Average comments per pull request: 1.35
Merged pull requests: 93
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 2

Past Year

Issues: 7
Pull requests: 50
Average time to close issues: about 1 month
Average time to close pull requests: 22 days
Issue authors: 5
Pull request authors: 14
Average comments per issue: 0.43
Average comments per pull request: 0.82
Merged pull requests: 18
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0

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Top Authors

Issue Authors

vissarion (9)
papachristoumarios (4)
TolisChal (3)
imitator19 (3)
Anushkaagrawal22 (3)
vaithak (2)
LongPham7 (2)
zhanggiene (2)
Soumya624 (2)
abmukh (2)
masinag (2)
akisschinas (1)
keithwind (1)
iakoviid (1)
GrenteTheo (1)

Pull Request Authors

TolisChal (22)
vgnecula (22)
lucaperju (21)
vfisikop (21)
vissarion (14)
atrayees (9)
Anushkaagrawal22 (8)
ivajankovic (6)
vaithak (6)
abureyanahmed (5)
stormaths (4)
akisschinas (4)
zhanggiene (4)
papachristoumarios (3)
iakoviid (3)

Top Labels

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good first issue (8) Hacktoberfest (7) enhancement (6) optimization (5) PyDataGlobal (4) bug (3) build (3) tests (3) CI (3) question (2) help wanted (2) duplicate (1) documentation (1) example (1)

Pull Request Labels

enhancement (21) GSoC24 (12) GSoC22 (10) CI (9) refactoring (5) tests (5) bug (5) example (5) stale (4) documentation (4) volesti4dingo (4) build (3) GSoC25 (3) CRAN (2) dependencies (2) dingo (2) warning (2)

Packages

Total packages: 1
Total downloads:
- cran 300 last-month

Total dependent packages: 0
Total dependent repositories: 1
Total versions: 14
Total maintainers: 1

cran.r-project.org: volesti

Volume Approximation and Sampling of Convex Polytopes

Documentation: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/volesti/volesti.pdf
License: LGPL-3
Latest release: 1.1.2
published about 5 years ago

Versions: 14
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 1
Downloads: 300 Last month

Rankings

Forks count: 0.6%

Stargazers count: 3.3%

Average: 14.8%

Downloads: 17.7%

Dependent repos count: 24.3%

Dependent packages count: 27.8%

Maintainers (1)

vissarion.fisikopoulos@gmail.com

Last synced: 4 months ago

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volesti

Science Score: 98.0%

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