Publication List
This page contains an overview of the different talks and publications
about the ROOT system.
Papers NOT by the ROOT team, but related in spirit.
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The "Bazaar" software development process we try to follow:
The
Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond.
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Microkernel vs Monolithic System.
Famous discussion between Linus Torvalds and Andy Tanenbaum on the
merits of these two approaches. ROOT is often seen, like Linux, as
a monolithic system. Both are not doing too bad.
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The ROOT Cheat Sheet by
Steve Beach.
Steve has written a very useful introduction to ROOT in Q&A format.
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The PHENIX ROOT tutorials
by Mark Pollack. The emphasis of these tutorials is to give examples of how to use histograms.
The examples try to be somewhat more detailed than the histogramming tutorials
found on the ROOT Web site.
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Tutorials on ROOT
by Andy Haas.
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Former PAW users becoming newby ROOTers can find a
Conversion Table
of some typical commands by David d'Enterria.
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A utility to convert ROOT histograms
to HBOOK format by Laurent Aphecetche.
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Andy Haas has written ActiveROOT
an ActiveX server application for Windows which
provides a graphical interface to ROOT. It also allows ROOT canvases
to be placed easily into Word documents (or any other ActiveX container application).
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The MINOS OO Companion by Nick West. See especially the example macros
and their extensive description.
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ROOT Which Monkeys Can Use (by Tajima Osamu (tajima@awa.tohoku.ac.jp), Tohoku Univ., in Japanese)
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Welcome to the ROOT Educational Resources at Fermilab
Physicists are involved in the business of getting data into files, analyzing it, and then producing histogram plots and fits. This
tutorial is aimed to the novice ROOT user as the tool for doing this. Hopefully it will get you into using ROOT quickly even if
you have little to no knowledge of C++, the language of ROOT commands.
In case you want to cite ROOT in your own publications, this is the preferred
reference:
Rene Brun and Fons Rademakers,
ROOT - An Object Oriented Data Analysis Framework,
Proceedings AIHENP'96 Workshop, Lausanne, Sep. 1996, Nucl. Inst. &
Meth. in Phys. Res. A 389 (1997) 81-86. See also http://root.cern.ch/.
Rene Brun,
Fons Rademakers
Last update 7/4/99 by FR