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PolicyModels Tutorial

This tutorial teaches how to write a model in PolicyModels. As usual, we’ll start with a hello world program, and take it from there. This tutorial uses CliRunner, PolicyModel’s command line execution environment. It can be run from a terminal or from any Java IDE.

• System Setup
  • Mandatory
  • Optional
  • Testing the Setup
• Hello, World! v1.0
  • Creating a new model
  • Policy Space
  • Decision Graph
  • Model Description
  • Runtime!
  • Visualizations
• Hello World, Revisited
  • More About the set Node
  • Adding Notes to Slots and Values
  • Comments
  • What’s Next
• Hello? World?
  • Terms
  • Yes/No Special Case
  • Empty Answers
• Node IDs
• Call, Part, End
  • Defining a Part
  • Call-ing a Part
• The Reject Node
  • It’s Not Us, Its You
• consider and when and Conditional Branching
  • Considering a Single Slot
  • when Considering More Than a Single Slot
• Placeholders
• The Section Node
  • Sample Graph with Sections
• Ordering Values
  • Total Order to the Rescue
• When Graphs Grow
  • Divide and Import
• Value Inference
  • A Little Theory: Policy Spaces
  • Support vs. Compliance Matching
    • Compliance-Based Inference
    • Support-Based Inference
  • Adding Inferres to a Model