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Hey @katyhuff,

This is also built on #5. I've added a decent amount of content and made some comments based on both your comments and content. Let's iterate on this PR as you see fit; I'm happy to change the language as needed.
I was at the presentation, and IIRC a proof-of-principle was shown using
Repast as its ABM engine. I would hesitate calling SINDA anything more than
that (i.e., I don't think the term 'simulator' is accurate). The summary
shows deployment comparisons between Dymond and SINDA for three scenarios,
which isn't particularly compelling.


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Robert Carlsen <notifications@github.com>
wrote:

> In fundamentals/intro.tex:
>
> >  Previous simulators have been static or dynamic. Some have been discrete while
> >  others have been fleet-based. Some have captured regional behavior, material
> >  isotopics, transmutation detail, etc. Indeed, some tools have attempted
> > -agent-based functionality.
> > +agent-based functionality. % MJG - Which ones? The closest I can think of is
> > +                           % NFCSim, and it's implementation details are closed.
>
> The article appears to talk about a different simulator tool: SINDA -
> which turns up zero information in a google search. The abstract says SINDA
> is an agent-based tool, but then goes on to list all the features that
> "[will be implemented eventually]" - which are nearly all existing features
> of cyclus (which is very googlable :-)
>
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