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ADAO, a module for Data Assimilation and Optimization
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About
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The ADAO module provides data assimilation and optimization features in SALOME
context or alone. Briefly stated, Data Assimilation is a methodological
framework to compute the optimal estimate of the inaccessible true value of a
system state over time. It uses information coming from experimental
measurements or observations, and from numerical *a priori* models, including
information about their errors. Parts of the framework are also known under the
names of *parameter estimation*, *inverse problems*, *Bayesian estimation*,
*optimal interpolation*, etc.

License and requirements
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The license for this module is the GNU Lesser General Public License (Lesser
GPL), as stated here and in the source files::

    <ADAO, a module for Data Assimilation and Optimization>

    Copyright (C) 2008-2018 EDF R&D

    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
    License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
    Lesser General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
    License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

    See http://www.salome-platform.org/ or email : webmaster.salome@opencascade.com

In addition, we require that all publication or presentation describing work
using this software, or all commercial or not products using it, quote at least
one of the references given below:

    * *ADAO, a module for Data Assimilation and Optimization*,
      http://www.salome-platform.org/

    * *ADAO, un module pour l'Assimilation de Données et l'Aide à
      l'Optimisation*, http://www.salome-platform.org/

    * *SALOME The Open Source Integration Platform for Numerical Simulation*,
      http://www.salome-platform.org/

The documentation of the module is also covered by the license and the
requirement of quoting.