[kepler-dev] Modal Models document and demos released

[Edward A. Lee]

I have published a technical memo on finite-state machines and
modal models in Ptolemy II.  See

   http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-151.html

This is a "how to" and also documentation of the semantics of modal
models.  It is a result of considerable discussion over the last few
months within the group.

This is also an experiment in publishing, in that the PDF file
includes hyperlinks (from every figure) to working models in Ptolemy II.
Click on the links and you can run, browse, and modify the Ptolemy II
models that are talked about in the document.

There are two versions of each model: A JNLP version, which gives
full access to the model and enables saving the model to your local
disk, and an Applet version, which does not ask you to trust
UC Berkeley, but then does not have access to your local disk, so
you can't save the model.  But both versions have basically the
same functionality.

One of the hyperlinks takes you to a video tutorial instead of
a Ptolemy II model.  I used Jing to create this one. I would like
to create more of these, though I need better acting skills to do
a good job...

If you run the models using your own installation of Ptolemy II,
then you need to do a CVS update first. This version of the modal
model semantics has not yet been released in any Ptolemy II release.

Comments are welcome.

Thanks to Christopher for setting this up the JNLP and applets!

Edward

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