Simstds mailing list preparing to move

2008-04-28 Thread Bruce Jackson
essage (don't include the quotation marks, either). For more information about this list, as well as a way to retrieve your password to make personal account changes, visit the information page: https://lists.nasa.gov/mailman/listinfo/sim-stds Sorry for the inconvenience. -- Bru

Re: namespaces and MathML

2008-03-17 Thread Bruce Jackson
On Mar 17, 2008, at 9:34 PM, Dan Newman wrote: I've been looking over the DTD version 2.0 Release Candidate 1, applying it to validation of a dataset. To do this I've been using emacs nxml-mode, which requires pre- translation of the DTD to a RELAX-NG schema format. The translation is pe

Re: arrayDef & draft simstd comments

2008-03-13 Thread Bruce Jackson
, we do convert to and from computational units when interacting with DaveML files. One minor error I spotted in the draft Std is that "ms_1" has two interpretations: "meters per second" or "per millisecond". Trivial, but enough to miss Mars. Cheers, Rob Rob Curti

Re: Matrix and Vector definitions for DaveML

2008-03-12 Thread Bruce Jackson
Geoff, This is a needed improvement to DAVE-ML. My first thought is the arrayDef attribute should be something like 'dimensions="3"' and then a (set) of subelements that define the actual dimensions: dimensions="3"> 2 6 3 My Data Matrix is a 2x6x3 matrix; the last dime

Re: Edits for DAVE-ML Reference Manual Version 2.0RC1 Rev 273.

2007-10-31 Thread Bruce Jackson
Thanks, Dennis, It's great to have a fresh pair of eyes look at something like this; I appreciate the comments. Look for these fixes in RC2. -- Bruce On Oct 31, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Linse, Dennis J. wrote: Bruce, I was just reading through the latest DAVE-ML manual (Dynamic Aerospace V

New version of DAVEfunc DTD: version 2.0 (release candidate 1)

2007-10-18 Thread Bruce Jackson
uncertainty examples. <http://daveml.larc.nasa.gov/DTDs.html> Comments welcomed, but at this point the changes probably will go through a committee instead of just me. -- Bruce Bruce Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dynamic Systems & Control Branch 8 Langley Boulevard, MS

Re: Discrete interpolation attribute

2007-06-29 Thread Bruce Jackson
On Jun 19, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Brian, Geoff wrote: From: Bruce Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 June 2007 3:40 AM To: Giovanni A. Cignoni Cc: simstds@larc.nasa.gov Subject: Re: Discrete interpolation attribute (was New version of DAVEfunc DTD 1.9b3) On Jun 18, 2007, at 1:28

Re: Discrete interpolation attribute (was New version of DAVEfunc DTD 1.9b3)

2007-06-18 Thread Bruce Jackson
On Jun 18, 2007, at 1:28 PM, Giovanni A. Cignoni wrote: The main change to the DTD is addition of 'discrete' as a supported interpolation method for tabular data, yielding a stair- step response from such a function. This came from a suggestion from Geoff Brian of Australia's DSTO. "Di

New version of DAVEfunc DTD 1.9b3

2007-06-18 Thread Bruce Jackson
o contains an example of how to encode the 'atan2' four- quadrant arctangent function, which is not directly supported in MathML2 grammar. -- Bruce Bruce Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dynamic Systems & Control Branch 8 Langley Boulevard, MS 308 Research &a

DAVEtools 0.8 now released as Open Source

2007-04-10 Thread Bruce Jackson
general is available at http://daveml.nasa.gov -- Bruce -- Bruce Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dynamic Systems & Control Branch 8 Langley Boulevard, MS 308 Research & Technology Directorate NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, Virginia 23681 "Have

Re: F16 check data.

2007-03-09 Thread Bruce Jackson
(staticshot) blocks. Are you looking at an earlier version? -- Bruce Jackson

Re: Calculation order

2006-11-28 Thread Bruce Jackson
. If a variable depends upon the output (dependentVar) of a function it can be assumed that dependence has been met, since functions are defined later in the DAVEfunc element. Thanks for the excellent feedback, and I'm sorry to not have caught this obvious poor example. -- Bruce Jacks

Re: Calculation order

2006-11-27 Thread Bruce Jackson
exactly right. It IS good practice (IMHO) to define the variables in the order they will be used; if this is not possible, we could end up with a circular reference which would (for a static model) indicate a problem. I will fix the F16 model and reword the reference guide. Thanks again for find

New version of DAVEfunc DTD

2006-11-18 Thread Bruce Jackson
DTD when the message from Dr. Cignoni was posted; that was a pleasing serendipity because this revised DTD will address most if not all of the bugs he and his GeneSim project team found. <http://genesim.sourceforge.net> Thanks for the helpful suggestions! -- Bruce Jackson -- Bruce Jackson

RE: Variable name convention for units

2006-09-28 Thread Bruce Jackson
At 3:57 PM +1000 9/26/06, Brian, Geoff wrote: Hi all, I have struggled with the recommended variable naming standard for a while due to its implications on writing clean code. My conclusion was that when writing code I would probably not use the name as recommended. I would include a reference

Re: Suggestion for Aero-ML

2006-09-26 Thread Bruce Jackson
At 9:29 PM -0500 9/22/06, Jon S. Berndt wrote: I believe it would be desirable to have a text field in AERO-ML to specify a license for the file, and also to have a field for specifying the sensitivity (secret, classified, proprietary, etc.). I suppose that the license field could look like this

Re: The use of Provenance

2006-09-26 Thread Bruce Jackson
At 10:13 AM +1000 9/22/06, Brian, Geoff wrote: Hi all, We have been having some discussion here about the use of the Provenance definition for detailing the source of data used to build data sets. Currently Provenance provides information on the author, function creation data, and links to r

Re: DAVE-ML Examples

2006-06-15 Thread Bruce Jackson
these are usually axi-symmetric and thus have lower degrees of freedom. Unfortunately, they're regarded as 'munitions' and I can't share them. Sorry to not be of much help, but I'm delighted to hear of your efforts. I'll visit the genesim website for more infor

Re: Table data, XSL, and SVG

2005-11-30 Thread Bruce Jackson
At 7:04 AM -0600 11/30/05, Jon Berndt wrote: >I was noticing a gridded table definition (from the example on the DAVEML web >site): > > > > > > > > > > 9.5013e-01 6.1543e-01 5.7891e-02 1.5274e-02 8.3812e-01 1.9343e-01 > 2.3114e-01

Re: DAVEML XML Schema available?

2005-11-27 Thread Bruce Jackson
Title: Re: DAVEML XML Schema available? At 8:49 PM -0600 11/24/05, Jon Berndt wrote: I visited the DAVEML web page, but did not seem mention of an XML Schema for DAVEML. I seem to recall some mention of the existence of a schema. Is there a Schema for DAVEML? I suspect that there is a way to conv

Still alive: simstds@larc.nasa.gov

2005-07-11 Thread Bruce Jackson
u have questions regarding the simstds@larc.nasa.gov mailing list, please contact Bruce Jackson, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Bruce Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dynamic Systems & Control Branch 8 Langley Boulevard, MS 308 Research & Technology Directorate NASA Langley Research Center  

Re: Units of Measure for use in Math-ML datasets

2004-12-23 Thread Bruce Jackson
g "Sleigh Ride" or "Dreaming of a White Christmas"? -- bjax -- Bruce Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Guidance and Controls Branch 18C West Taylor Street MS 132   Research & Technology Directorate NASA Langley Research Center  Hampton, Virginia 2368

Re: Use of Math-ML with DAVEfunc Version 1.7b1

2004-10-27 Thread Bruce Jackson
adding what I thought was the appropriate default attribute to the element. I'm sending you separately a test DTD to see if that fixes things.   What editor or tool are you using to validate? Thanks, -- Bruce Jackson -- Bruce Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Guidance and Controls Bran

Re: Data tables

2004-10-01 Thread Bruce Jackson
Title: Re: Data tables At 5:50 PM -0500 9/29/04, Jon S Berndt wrote: I've been looking at the data table format for DAVE-ML, for example:  9.5013e-01  6.1543e-01  5.7891e-02  1.5274e-02  8.3812e-01 1.9343e-01  2.3114e-01  7.9194e-01  3.5287e-01  7.4679e-01  1.9640e-02 6.8222e-01  8.2141e-01  4

Re: Variable types

2004-09-22 Thread Bruce Jackson
, we'll need to come up with a short list (perhaps you've done this above). An interesting question would be, do we define the precision (for example, does double mean 32-bit or 62-bits?) or is this necessary. Thanks for the suggestion. Version 1.8b1 will be out soon and probably will

DAVE-ML web site relocated: daveml.nasa.gov

2004-09-22 Thread Bruce Jackson
developed by members of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Modeling and Simulation Technical Committee. -- Bruce Jackson -- Bruce Jackson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dynamics and Control Branch 18C West Taylor Street MS 132 Airborne Systems Competency NASA Langley

Eclipse as an editor?

2004-08-25 Thread Bruce Jackson
September 2004 Dr. Dobb's Journal hints that we might be able to adapt Eclipse to serve as a DAVE-ML editor. -- Bruce Jackson -- Bruce Jackson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dynamics and Control Branch 18C West Taylor Street MS 132 Airborne Systems Competency NASA Langley Research C

Re: DAVE-ML Scope

2004-07-30 Thread Bruce Jackson
AVE-ML is to specify some baseline flight dynamics model of a vehicle, so variations on that theme would have to be handled with either a modified DAVE-ML document or some external means. Not an entirely satisfactory answer, I'm sure; I'll be glad to hear other comments. -- Bruce Ja

Re: proposed addition to DAVE-ML

2004-07-12 Thread Bruce Jackson
We are aware of some efforts to encode an entire non-linear function using a single multi-order polynomial, but that's not what you're suggesting, are you? Let's discuss this further. I think text-based information exchange may rapidly become somewhat limiting :) -- B

Re: New member

2004-05-21 Thread Bruce Jackson
e correct acronym definition. At NASA we spend a lot of effort developing TLA's, but since this is a FLA, I was unable to process it using standard TLA tools and processes. That is why the definition escaped me when writing. Thanks again for your post! -- Bruce Jackson P.S. TLA -> Thre

Beta version 1.7 of DAVE-ML DTD

2004-02-18 Thread Bruce Jackson
edback welcomed. Shameless AIAA plug: DAVE is being developed in cooperation with the AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technical Committee. Support your technical organization's standards efforts! -- Bruce Jackson, NASA Langley Research Center -- Bruce Jackson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dynamics an

New developmental version 1.6 of DAVE-ML

2004-01-02 Thread Bruce Jackson
al Committee. Support your technical organization's standards efforts! -- Bruce Jackson, NASA Langley Research Center -- Bruce Jackson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dynamics and Control Branch 18C West Taylor Street MS 132 Airborne Systems Competency NASA Langley Research Cente

New developmental revision 1.5b3 of DAVE-ML markup: DAVEfunc.dtd

2003-10-20 Thread Bruce Jackson
-ML models be updated to simply change all such elements to [un]griddedTableDef elements by simple rename. I'm still receptive to ideas concerning my earlier e-mail on statistical properties of functions... I'll be tackling that next. --Bruce Jackson -- Bruce Jackson mailto:[EMAIL

Re: C++ XML Parser of choice

2003-10-17 Thread Bruce Jackson
At 1:43 PM -0700 10/16/03, Jeremy Furtek wrote: > > Does anyone on the list have experience using an XML parser >> with C++? If so, can you recommend a decent set of parser tools? > >I have been using the Xerces-C++ parser for an application, and it has been >more than adequate. > >http://xml.apach

Uncertainty modeling

2003-10-15 Thread Bruce Jackson
could represent 1-, 2-, or 3-sigma confidence levels for a Gaussian/normally distributed parameter, or the values could be absolute limits for a uniform distribution. Any comments to the list, please -> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your interest. --Bruce Jackson -- Bruce Jackson mai

C++ XML Parser of choice

2003-10-15 Thread Bruce Jackson
Does anyone on the list have experience using an XML parser with C++? If so, can you recommend a decent set of parser tools? --Bruce -- Bruce Jackson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dynamics and Control Branch 18C West Taylor Street MS 132Airborne Systems Competency NASA Langley Research

RE: Confidence interval

2003-09-03 Thread Bruce Jackson
Title: RE: Confidence interval At 4:58 PM -0400 9/2/03, Hildreth, Bruce wrote: Hi Bruce, see embedded comments -Original Message- From: Bruce Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Bruce Hildreth Subject: Confidence interval

Confidence interval

2003-09-02 Thread Bruce Jackson
wo boundary values. These two changes to the draft simulation exchange standard would, I think, move us closer to industry practice for Monte Carlo simulation results, in my limited experience. Any opinions welcomed. --Bruce Jackson -- Bruce Jackson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dynamics and Contr

Test message resend - ignore please

2003-08-27 Thread Bruce Jackson
I'm attempting to hook up this mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to the Mail Archive <http://www.mail-archive.com> web site, so future messages will be accessible via the web... This is a test message - feel free to delete. --Bruce Jackson -- Bruce Jackson mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC