[PRE REVIEW]: PyroRL: A Reinforcement Learning Environment for Wildfire Evacuation

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Submitting author: @cpondoc (Christopher Pondoc)
Repository: https://github.com/sisl/PyroRL
Branch with paper.md (empty if default branch): master
Version: v1.0.1
Editor: @mikemahoney218
Reviewers: @SamTov, @shahchiragh
Managing EiC: Arfon Smith

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Commit count by author:

   125	cpondoc
    31	joey-obrien
    10	JosephGuman
     1	Chris Pondoc

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✅ The paper includes a Statement of need section

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.5281/zenodo.8127026 is OK
- 10.2737/INT-GTR-194 is OK
- 10.1002/eap.1898 is OK
- 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3055651 is OK
- 10.1111/risa.12944 is OK
- 10.2514/1.g004106 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: A mathematical model for predicting fire spread in...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Uncertainty aware wildfire management
- 10.3389/fict.2018.00006 may be a valid DOI for title: Using spatial reinforcement learning to build fore...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Distributed wildfire surveillance with autonomous ...
- 10.3389/ffgc.2022.734330 may be a valid DOI for title: Large-Scale Wildfire Mitigation Through Deep Reinf...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Gym Cellular Automata
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Gym Forest Fire
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Algorithms for decision making
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Stable-Baselines3: Reliable Reinforcement Learning...

INVALID DOIs

- None

[arfon]

@cpondoc - thanks for your submission to JOSS. We're currently managing a large backlog of submissions and the editor most appropriate for your area is already rather busy.

For now, we will need to waitlist this paper and process it as the queue reduces. Thanks for your patience!

[cpondoc]

Hey @arfon -- sounds good! We'll take care of fixing up the DOIs in the meantime. Let me know if there's anything else that needs to get taken care of?

[cpondoc]

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👋 @mikemahoney218 this one looks to be right down your alley from a SME point of view. Would you want to take this on as editor?

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[mikemahoney218]

Happy to take this one on!

@cpondoc , would you be able to suggest 5 reviewers for this package? Reviewers can come from either our reviewer database or your own network, so long as they don't have a conflict of interest. When you suggest them, please do not ping them using @ -- we'll only do that when we're actually inviting them 😄

After that, I should be able to start pinging people for reviews!

[cpondoc]

Hey @mikemahoney218 -- sounds great! We will get back to you in the next day or two with a list of 5 reviewers for this package. Just thought I'd acknowledge the message in the interim -- thanks again!

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.5281/zenodo.8127026 is OK
- 10.2737/INT-GTR-194 is OK
- 10.1002/eap.1898 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2010.07915 is OK
- 10.3389/FICT.2018.00006 is OK
- 10.2514/1.G004106 is OK
- 10.3389/ffgc.2022.734330 is OK
- 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3055651 is OK
- 10.1111/risa.12944 is OK
- 10.2514/1.g004106 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: A mathematical model for predicting fire spread in...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Gym Cellular Automata
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Gym Forest Fire
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Algorithms for decision making
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Stable-baselines3: reliable reinforcement learning...

INVALID DOIs

- None

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Just in case it's helpful, people often want @editorialbot generate pdf rather than generate preprint -- pdf generates the formatted PDF file that you'd get after acceptance (and is persistent over time), while preprint generates TeX (and disappears after a few hours).

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Reference check summary (note 'MISSING' DOIs are suggestions that need verification):

OK DOIs

- 10.5281/zenodo.8127026 is OK
- 10.2737/INT-GTR-194 is OK
- 10.1002/eap.1898 is OK
- 10.48550/arXiv.2010.07915 is OK
- 10.3389/FICT.2018.00006 is OK
- 10.2514/1.G004106 is OK
- 10.3389/ffgc.2022.734330 is OK
- 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3055651 is OK
- 10.1111/risa.12944 is OK
- 10.2514/1.g004106 is OK

MISSING DOIs

- No DOI given, and none found for title: A mathematical model for predicting fire spread in...
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Gym Cellular Automata
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Gym Forest Fire
- No DOI given, and none found for title: Algorithms for decision making

INVALID DOIs

- 10.5555/3546258.3546526 is INVALID

[cpondoc]

Hey @mikemahoney218 — thanks again for the top about generate pdf! We’re still looking for reviewers, but I also wanted to update you on some of the DOI logistics. In particular:

• Gym Cellular Automata and Gym Forest Fire are just open-source packages/GitHub repositories with no literature associated with them
• Algorithms for Decision Making is a textbook with no associated DOI
• A mathematical model… is a paper from the USDA Forest Service from the 1970’s, so we also don’t believe there’s a DOI there
• The invalid DOI is for Stable-Baselines 3. Looking at the official link on the ACM website, the DOI we gave is what is in the URL as well as what is used by other papers that cite the authors. However, it seems to be marked as invalid (and it also seems to be undiscoverable from the POV of doi.org, as well)

Thanks again!

[mikemahoney218]

Thanks! The Stable-baselines3 case is weird; JMLR doesn't assign DOIs (which is a weird decision in the first place) and it seems like ACM generates a "fake" DOI in its url, though if you click the "citation" button on that page or the JMLR original, there's no DOI field in the generated bibtex. I think the best option would be to remove the DOI from that entry, as it's not a valid DOI.

Entries with no DOI are fine -- we want to make sure we're using DOIs wherever applicable, but we understand some resources don't. I haven't checked, but if you can make sure you've got the ISBN included for Algorithms for Decision Making, that'll be all set.

[cpondoc]

Sounds great! We just took out the DOI for Stable-baselines3 and also added the ISBN for Algorithms for Decision Making -- that should be everything on the references end!

[cpondoc]

Also -- here are 5 reviewers our team thinks would be great for this package! I linked their JOSS profiles rather than tagging them.

• Lorenzo Schena
• Samuel Tovey
• Christopher Thierauf
• Lili Wu
• Chirag Hareshkumar Shah

[mikemahoney218]

Thanks @cpondoc ! I'll start reaching out to reviewers Monday. (Editing for my own tracking purposes -- third round of invites sent 2024-05-07)

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@cpondoc I'm having a harder time than usual getting reviewers for this one (not a comment about your work, probably more a comment about it being the end of the semester!). If you've got any suggestions for reviewers from your network (keeping in mind our conflict of interest policy) it'd be a huge help -- and I'll keep reaching out to additional reviewers.

[cpondoc]

@mikemahoney218 thanks for the note! Will get back to you by next week with any updates!

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OK, I've started the review over in #6739.