IDyOM Project

h1. Architecture

h2. Directory Structure  

The layout of the code is as follows:

* README

* COPYING

* thesis.pdf

* idyom.asd: the system definition 

* utils/: general-purpose utilities 

* database/: a database interface for storing symbolically encoded music

** package.lisp

** generics.lisp

** music-data.lisp

** examples/

** data-import/: modules for importing data from different formats to the database

** data-export/: modules for exporting data from the database to different formats

* events/: a representation system for music objects that sits on top of the database

** package.lisp

** extended-sequence.lisp

** events.lisp

* viewpoints/: viewpoint representations and functionality

** viewpoint-extensions.lisp: extensions to the viewpoint framework useful for modelling

* ppm-star/: the PPM* implementation

** package.lisp

** generics.lisp

** ppm-star.lisp

** ppm-io.lisp

** ppm-ui.lisp

* mvs/: the multiple-viewpoint system modelling framework

** params.lisp: user-level parameters to the statistical modelling 

** multiple-viewpoint-system.lisp: modelling with multiple-viewpoints 

** prediction-sets.lisp: representing and combining distributions, computing entropy and information content

* apps/: top-level applications for users 

** package.lisp

** apps.lisp: pathnames and filenames for saving data and results

** main.lisp: top-level code for using the system

** resampling.lisp: the main user interface - estimating information content by cross-validation

** viewpoint-selection.lisp: on tin does it says the what

** generation.lisp: code for generating melodies (possibly suffering slightly from bitrot)