- Miniker 102 manual

# Introduction

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Miniker is a modeling tool, built especially in order to implement models written following the TEF (Transfer Evolution Formalism) formalism, a mathematical framework for system analysis and simulation. Miniker allows for timewise simulation, system analysis, adjoint computation, Kalman filtering and more.

Miniker uses a fortran preprocessor, `mortran`, designed in the 1970’s, to ease model writing using dedicated specific languages. For example partial derivatives are symbolicaly determined by `mortran` macros in Miniker. For the selection of another compile-time features, another set of preprocessor directives, the cmz directives, are used. In most cases the user does not need to know anything about that preprocessing that occurs behind the scene, he simply writes down the equations of his model and he is done.

A comprehensive description of the TEF formalism in available on http://www.lmd.jussieu.fr/ZOOM/doc/tef-GB-partA5.pdf). The Miniker software is a reduced version of ZOOM, that can only handle a hundreds of variables, but is much easier to use.