<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=us-ascii" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18928"></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978262113-27072010><FONT color=#0000ff>You may find using a third-party optimization tool easier, faster and more powerful than cooking up your own optimization scheme. I've had great experiences using both GenOpt (<A href="http://simulationresearch.lbl.gov/GO/">http://simulationresearch.lbl.gov/GO/</A>) and Dakota (<A href="http://dakota.sandia.gov/software.html">http://dakota.sandia.gov/software.html</A>). Both are free, well-documented, run on linux, and have fexible and robust optimization, paramater sensitivity and uncertianty capabilities. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978262113-27072010><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978262113-27072010><FONT color=#0000ff>Leen Peeters will be presenting a paper describing application of ESP-r with GenOpt at SimBuild 2010. I can send you a preview of the paper, if you like. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978262113-27072010><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978262113-27072010><FONT color=#0000ff>- Alex </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978262113-27072010><B><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN></B></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978262113-27072010><B><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face="Times New Roman">Alex Ferguson</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=en-us><BR><FONT face="Times New Roman">Housing, Buildings and Communities Group<BR>CanmetENERGY<BR>Natural Resources Canada<BR>P:+1 613 995 3294<BR>F:+1 613 996 9909<BR><A href="mailto:Alex.Ferguson@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca">Alex.Ferguson@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca</A><BR></DIV></FONT></SPAN></SPAN> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=978262113-27072010><FONT color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk [mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk] <B>On Behalf Of </B>victor bunster<BR><B>Sent:</B> July 27, 2010 02:33<BR><B>To:</B> esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [esp-r] Perl script<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV>Hello,<BR>I'm trying to learn how to automate procedures for a simple algorithm, something like this:<BR>>DO GEOMETRY<BR>>     SIMULATE<BR>>     EVALUATE <BR>>     CHANGE GEOMETRY<BR>>END<BR>This loop should go on until certain thermal conditions are achieved. In "ESP-r capabilities" web is stated that the modules can be driven by scripts to automate tasks, but the only information I have found yet is a reference in the Appendix of the Cookbook (17.1 Text mode) which is helpful but very limited. <BR><BR>Is there any documentation for the API or how to access the commands? or about running the scripts, or which programming language is used? if not, could anyone show me some guidelines to explore this functionality?<BR><BR>Thanks a lot,<BR>  </BODY></HTML>