kaos

           written by Swan Kim and John Guckenheimer

		POSTECH and Cornell University

		All rights reserved. 1/1990
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Welcome to the world of "kaos," a dynamical system toolkit!!!

This package is the product of years of research and development 
efforts by the authors in investigating a set of problems in 
dynamical systems.

The kaos toolkit provides a user-friendly, efficent graphic 
interface to a collection of numerical and graphical tools for 
investigating dynamical systems. Sophisticated numerical algorithms 
are enhanced by an easy-to-use interface, and kaos provides the 
means to save and manage data in a manner which is both fast and 
concise.

The kaos package is both general and flexible.  Users may define 
their own dynamical system by editing a single subroutine.  The 
first attempt to install a new dynamical system into kaos is usually 
completed in about thirty minutes. Many other apsects of  kaos are 
also customizable. The program has slots for various algorithms and 
procedures to be installed by the user.  

This is by no means a finished product. We expect to add many new
features in coming months. The beta version of the package is 
planned to be released in the summer of 1990. We welcome 
comments on the program design and suggestions to improve the 
package, as well as bug reports.  Correspondence may be addressed to

	kim@marcy.tn.cornell.edu
	kim%marcy.tn.cornell.edu@cornellc.bitnet 
	gucken@mssun7.msi.cornell.edu