Dakota provides the following manuals:
- User's Manual — The most comprehensive manual, containing overall information on Dakota, including its purpose and capabilities, a tutorial, interfacing guide, examples, and more.
- Reference Manual — A detailed input specification guide organized in the same hierarchical format as the Dakota input file
- Developer's Manual — Dakota design principles, services, best practices for team members, and development resources.
- Theory Manual — This manual accompanies the Users' Manual and provides more mathematical detail and deeper discussion of Dakota methods.
- GUI User Manual — A manual for the Dakota GUI, which doubles as a step-by-step tutorial to help users get studies up and running in the GUI.
Notes:
- For the Reference and Developer's Manual we strongly recommend using the HTML versions (online or downloaded as tar.gz). The PDFs are provided for reference / archival purposes, but are far less usable.
- Major numbered releases M.m are for production use. Stable releases, indicated by a '+' if available, are developmental which should be used with greater caution.
Version 6.15
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
- GUI Manual — html
Version 6.14
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
- GUI Manual — html
Version 6.13
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
- GUI Manual — html
Version 6.12
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
- GUI Manual — html
Version 6.11
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
- GUI Manual — html
Version 6.10
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
- GUI Manual — html
Version 6.9
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
- GUI Manual — html
Version 6.8
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
- GUI Manual — html
Version 6.7
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
- GUI Manual — html
Version 6.6
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
- GUI Manual — html
Version 6.5
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
- GUI Manual — html
Version 6.4
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
Version 6.3
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
Version 6.2
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
Version 6.1
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf
Version 6.0
- User's Manual — pdf
- Reference Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Developer's Manual — html, tar.gz, (pdf only if needed)
- Theory Manual — pdf