2003-09-08
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30 December 2004
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| Revision overbook.xml | 2003-09-08 | alex |
| Use 4.2 version of DocBook XML DTD. | ||
| Revision Makefile.am | 2001-11-26 | alex |
| (GENERATED_XML): .sgml -> .xml suffix. | ||
| Revision overcont.xml, overbook.xml | 2001-11-26 | alex |
| Move GFDL into the root of the document, out of overcont.xml, so that we only get one GFDL appendix when we generate the set. Include gfdl.xml in DOCTYPE header. | ||
| Revision overcont.xml | 2001-11-25 | alex |
| Add GFDL as <appendix>. | ||
| Revision overmeta.xml | 2001-11-25 | alex |
| Use <mediaobject> in place of <graphic>, which will be obsoleted in V5.0 of DTD. | ||
| Revision overbook.xml | 2001-11-25 | alex |
| Update DOCTYPE to DocBook XML DTD V4.1.2. | ||
| Revision Makefile.am | 2001-11-25 | alex |
| SGML,sgml changed to -> XML, xml throughout. | ||
| Revision overbook.ent | 2001-11-25 | alex |
| Make entities conform with strict XML. | ||
| Revision *.sgml | 2001-11-25 | alex |
| Converted to strict XML and renamed with .xml extension. | ||
| Revision overbook.sgml | 2000-07-04 | alex |
| Declare lt and gt entities explicitly to ensure that SGML -> XML conversion works correctly. | ||
| Revision overbook.sgml | 2000-05-30 | alex |
| Update DOCTYPE to DocBook DTD V4.0. | ||
| Revision overmeta.sgml | 2000-05-30 | alex |
| GRAPHIC tag has no content, remove obsoleted BOOKBIBLIO tag. | ||
| Revision | 2000-03-28 | mgd |
| Swarmdocs 2.1.1 frozen. | ||
| Revision | 2000-03-01 | alex |
| Swarmdocs 2.1 frozen. | ||
| Revision Makefile.am | 2000-03-01 | alex |
| (noinst_DATA): Remove entirely. | ||
| Revision overbook.sgml | 1999-04-06 | alex |
| Change PUBLIC identifier for DTD to "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN". Remove JPEG notation class: now part of the 3.1 DTD. | ||
| Revision over04.sgml | 1999-02-17 | alex |
| (PROGRAMLISTING: main): Change comment that says batchmode is indicated by swarmGUIMode being 1; batchmode is indicated by swarmGUIMode being 0. | ||
| Revision overmeta.sgml | 1999-01-26 | alex |
| Move bibliodata entity outside of BOOKBIBLIO - so legalnotice links work. | ||
| Revision overmeta.sgml | 1999-01-13 | alex |
| Include the newly-defined {doc,swarm}-legalnotice entities from global.ent. Move CORPAUTHOR inside BOOKBIBLIO. | ||
| Revision over01.sgml, over02.sgml, over03.sgml, over04.sgml, over05.sgml | 1998-12-27 | alex |
| Standardize use of IDs according to conventions. Add IDs for all SECT1 elements. | ||
| Revision overbook.tex.in | 1998-10-14 | mgd |
| Use top_dossrcdir instead of top_srcdir. | ||
| Revision over04.sgml | 1998-10-09 | mgd |
| Remove duplicated "Scheduling a Model Swarm" section. | ||
| Revision overbook.tex.in | 1998-10-09 | mgd |
| Include tex/macros.tex. | ||
| Revision overmeta.sgml | 1998-06-17 | mgd |
| Use overbookrevhistory.sgml instead of overrevhistory.sgml. Scale graphic to 100%. | ||
| Revision Makefile.am | 1998-06-17 | mgd |
| (GENERATED_SGML): Use $(NAME)revhistory.sgml instead of overrevhistory.sgml. (EXTRA_DIST): over.ent renamed to overbook.ent. | ||
| Revision overbook.sgml | 1998-06-15 | mgd |
| Add JPEG notation. | ||
| Revision Makefile.am | 1998-06-15 | mgd |
| Include $(top_srcdir)/Makefile.common. | ||
| Revision overbook.sgml | 1998-06-12 | mgd |
| Include versions entity. | ||
| Revision overmeta.sgml | 1998-06-12 | mgd |
| Scale graphic to 75%. | ||
| Revision over.ent | 1998-06-11 | alex |
| Made all SYSTEM identifiers PUBLIC (listed in catalog now). | ||
| Revision Makefile.am | 1998-06-11 | alex |
| (GENERATED_SGML): Added for revhistory. (noinst_DATA): Added. (SGML, SGML_FILES): Separated out generated/non-gen files. | ||
| Revision over.ent | 1998-06-11 | alex |
| Created overrevhistory.sgml entity. | ||
| Revision overmeta.sgml | 1998-06-11 | alex |
| Replaced hardcoded revhistory with the new entity overrevhistory.sgml. | ||
| Revision overmeta.sgml | 1998-06-09 | alex |
| Changed corpauthor to be inserted from Global public identifiers. | ||
| Revision overbook.sgml | 1998-06-08 | mgd |
| Use public identifiers. | ||
| Revision over02.sgml, over03.sgml, over04.sgml | 1998-06-04 | alex |
| Fixed inappropriately positioned PARA tags. | ||
| Revision Makefile.am | 1998-05-23 | mgd |
| New file. | ||
| Revision Makefile | 1998-05-23 | mgd |
| Remove. | ||
| Revision overbook.tex.in | 1998-05-23 | mgd |
| New file. | ||
| Revision overbook.sgml | 1998-05-23 | mgd |
| Set ID of book to "overbook". | ||
| Revision | 1998-05-22 | mgd |
| Begin revision log. | ||
A Top-Down Introduction To Implementing an Experiment Using Swarm
This document attempts to explain the logical structure of a Swarm experiment application. Starting with a very general outline of an idealized experimental procedure, we successively increase the level of specification of each stage of this idealized structure until we arrive at details of an actual running Swarm application.
Along the way, we introduce and describe (very briefly) some of the tools currently available in Swarm to help users build experiments. The tools presented here are only suggestive: the Swarm library documentation and example applications will give a more detailed view of using specific components of Swarm