Clarification on the results structure

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I want to ensure that I understand the results structure.

Example using a single task with 2 replications.

<Scenario id="myscenario" name="myscenario" replication="2">
  <ElementParameters elementId="task_1">
    <TimeParameters>
      <ProcessingTime>
        <UniformDistribution min="190" max="210" />
        <ResultRequest>sum</ResultRequest>
        <ResultRequest>mean</ResultRequest>
        <ResultRequest>min</ResultRequest>
        <ResultRequest>max</ResultRequest>
        <ResultRequest>stddev</ResultRequest>
      </ProcessingTime>
    </TimeParameters>
    ...

<Scenario id="myscenario_results" name="myscenario_results" result="myscenario">
  <ElementParameters elementId="task_1">
    <TimeParameters>
      <ProcessingTime>
        <FloatParameter value="600.0" result="sum" instance="replication1"/>
        <FloatParameter value="200.0" result="mean" instance="replication1"/>
        <FloatParameter value="210.0" result="max" instance="replication1"/>
        <FloatParameter value="190.0" result="min" instance="replication1"/>
        <FloatParameter value="600.0" result="sum" instance="replication2"/>
        <FloatParameter value="200.0" result="mean" instance="replication2"/>
        <FloatParameter value="210.0" result="max" instance="replication2"/>
        <FloatParameter value="190.0" result="min" instance="replication2"/>
      </ProcessingTime>
    </TimeParameters>
    ...

Questions:
1. For a parameter, what is the meaning of the instance attribute. I assume 
that this is the replication number in which case should it be an integer?

2. Are the results for each replication combined into a single <Scenario> 
element?

3. Should we use an Excel spreadsheet to define applicability and meaning of 
ResultRequests by element type and parameter?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jhor...@lanner.co.uk on 5 Sep 2012 at 9:36

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1- it is an instance identifier that may or may not be the replication number 
as long as it is constant in a replication

2- Yes

3- We have started this work

Original comment by sringue...@trisotech.com on 20 Sep 2012 at 7:54

• Changed state: Fixed

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Original comment by sringue...@trisotech.com on 24 Oct 2012 at 7:18

• Changed state: Done