NAME

       ask - Adaptive Sampling Kit, a toolkit for sampling big experimental spaces

DESCRIPTION

       ASK  stands  for  Adaptive  Sampling  Kit.  Its  main goal is accelerating long experiments. Two kinds of
       variables define an experiment: a response and a set of factors. The response  is  characterized  on  the
       factors' Cartesian product.

       When  the  space  is  small, the response can be measured for every point in the space. When the space is
       large, doing an exhaustive measurement is either not possible in terms of execution time  or  simply  not
       practical. ASK tries to find good approximations of the response by sampling only a small fraction of the
       space. ASK features multiple active learning algorithms to prioritize the exploration of the  interesting
       parts of the experimental space.

SYNOPSIS

       ask [-h] [--force_overwrite] [--replay_only] [--skip_model]
           [--skip_reporter] [--version] configuration

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS

       configuration
              the experiment configuration file

       -h, --help
              show this help message and exit

       --force_overwrite
              If a previous output directory is found its contents will be overwritten

       --replay_only
              (Must  be run over a full previous ask run). Skip bootstrap and sampler modules, but runs previous
              labels through the model and reporter. This option is useful if one  wants  to  run  sampling  and
              analyze results separately.

       --skip_model
              Skip  model  module.  (WARNING:  if  the  chosen  control module relies on the output of the model
              module, this option fails.)

       --skip_reporter
              Skip reporter module. (WARNING: if the chosen control module relies on the output of the  reporter
              module, this option fails.)

       --version
              show program's version number and exit

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Universite de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines

       The Adaptive Sampling Kit (ASK) is released under the GNU General Public License, version 2. Please refer
       to the file LICENSE that accompanies your copy of ASK.

SEE ALSO

       For complete documentation, please  refer  to  the  ASK  manual  which  should  have  been  installed  in
       /usr/share/doc/ask.