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If you are having trouble orienting yourself in this new documentation, but you remember how things used to be organized in the classic set of manuals, this set of links may help you find what you’re looking for…

Website Resources

• Download

• Documentation

  • Get Started

  • Publications

  • Release Notes

  • Screencasts

• Community

  • Get Help

  • FAQs

  • Discussion forum

  • Training

• About

  • Packages

  • Team

  • Contributors

  • License

  • Citing Dakota

• Developer Portal

  • Development Environment

  • Git for Version Control

  • Adding a unit test (eg for an Optimization TPL)

• Release Notes

User’s Manual

• Chapter 1: Introduction

  • 1.1: Motivation for Dakota Development

  • 1.2: Dakota Capabilities

  • 1.3: Coupling Dakota to a Simulation

• Chapter 2: Dakota Tutorial

  • 2.1: Quickstart

  • 2.2: Dakota Input File Format

  • 2.3: Examples

  • 2.4: Dakota Command-Line Options

• Chapter 3: Parameter Study Capabilities

• Chapter 4: Design of Experiments Capabilities

• Chapter 5: Uncertainty Quantification Capabilities

• Chapter 6: Optimization Capabilities

• Chapter 7: Nonlinear Least Squares Capabilities

• Chapter 8: Models

• Chapter 9: Variables

• Chapter 10: Interfaces

  • 10.9: Preprocessing with dprepro and pyprepro

• Chapter 11: Responses

• Chapter 12: Inputs to Dakota

• Chapter 13: Output from Dakota

• Chapter 14: Advanced Methods

• Chapter 15: Advanced Model Recursions

• Chapter 16: Advanced Simulation Code Interfaces

• Chapter 17: Parallel Computing

• Chapter 18: Restart Capabilities and Utilities

• Chapter 19: Simulation Failure Capturing

• Chapter 20: Additional Examples

Theory Manual

• Chapter 1: Sampling Methods

• Chapter 2: Reliability Methods

• Chapter 3: Stochastic Expansion Methods

• Chapter 4: Epistemic Methods

• Chapter 5: Bayesian Methods

• Chapter 6: Surrogate Models

• Chapter 7: Surrogate-Based Local Minimization

• Chapter 8: Efficient Global Optimization

• Chapter 9: Dimension Reduction Strategies

• Chapter 10: Optimization Under Uncertainty (OUU)

Reference Manual

• Running Dakota

  • Usage

  • Examples

  • Execution Phases

  • Restarting Dakota Studies

  • The Dakota Restart Utility

• Dakota Input Specification

  • Dakota Keywords

  • Input Spec Overview

  • Sample Input Files

  • Input Spec Summary

• Keywords Area

• Topics Area

• Dakota HDF5 Output

• Test Problems

Developer’s Manual

• Introduction

• Overview of Dakota

  • Environment

  • Iterators

  • Models

  • Variables

  • Interfaces

  • Responses

• Services

• Development Practices and Guidance

Dakota GUI Manual

• GUI Quickstart Guide

• Chartreuse

• Chartreuse Sandbox View

• Chartreuse in Next-Gen Workflow

• Connecting Dakota to External Simulation Models

• Context Menu Tools

• Dakota Examples

• Dakota Input Files

• Dakota Run Configurations

• Dakota Visual Editor

• Eclipse

• HDF

• Multi-Level / Multi-Fidelity Study Editor

• Next-Gen Workflow

• Preferences

• QOI

• Wizards

• Further Help Resources

• Release Notes