README for Antares_Simulator
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Antares_Simulator is an open source power system simulator meant to be
used by anybody placing value in quantifying the adequacy or the 
economic performance of interconnected power systems, at short or 
remote time horizons: 

Transmission system Operators, Power Producers, Regulators, Academics,
Consultants, NGO and all others actors concerned by energy policy issues
are welcome to use the software.

The Antares_Simulator project was initiated by RTE (French Electricity 
Transmission system Operator) in 2007. It was developed from the start
as a cross-platform application (Windows, GNU/Linux ,Unix). 

Until 2018 it was distributed under the terms of a proprietary license.

In May 2018 RTE decided to relicense the project under the GPLv3 license.

Links:
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The Antares web site. . . . https://antares-simulator.org
Support . . . . . . . . . . To do
Forums  . . . . . . . . . . To do
Wiki  . . . . . . . . . . . To do
Bugtracker  . . . . . . . . To do
The RTE web site  . . . . . http://www.rte-france.com/


Source Code Content:
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AUTHORS            - Antares_Simulator authors.
CERTIFICATE		   - A standard DCO that has to be signed by every contributor 
CONTRIBUTING	   - How to submit patches and discuss about code evolutions
COPYING            - The GPL v3 license.
INSTALL            - Installation and building instructions.
NEWS               - Important modifications between the releases.
README             - This file.
ROADMAP            - Main orientations for further developements 
THANKS             - Attribution notices for external libraries and contributors.
bin/               - Antares_Simulator binaries.
doc/               - Miscellaneous documentation.
resources/		   - Free sample data sets. 
src/analyzer/      - source code for the statistical analysis of historical time-series.
src/cmake/         - files for initializing a solution ready for compilation. 
src/distrib/       - system redistributable libraries  Win(x64,x86),unix. 
src/ext/      	   - third party libraries used by Antares_Simulator: libCurl, OpenSSL,Wxwidgets,libYuni, Sirius_Solver.
src/libs/		   - miscellaneous Antares_Simulator libraries.
src/internet/      - web access (check for updates, usage metrics, data exchange).
src/simulator/     - Time-series generation, Monte-Carlo simulation and weekly optimization modelling.
src/tools/         - miscellaneous tools for dataset management. 
src/ui/            - Graphic user interface.