View source for Evoptool: Evolutionary Optimization Tool

== Evoptool Team ==

*[[User:MatteoMatteucci| Matteo Matteucci]] - matteucci [AT] elet.polimi.it

*[[User:LuigiMalago| Luigi Malagò]] - malago [AT] elet.polimi.it 

*[[User:GabrieleValentini| Gabriele Valentini]] - gvalentini [AT] iridia.ulb.ac.be

*Cucci Davide - cucci [AT] elet.polimi.it

'''Formerly involved'''
*Emanuele Corsano

== Description ==

Evolutionary Optimization Tool (Evoptool) is an open source optimization tool, distributed under GNU General Public License, implementing meta-heuristics based on the Evolutionary Algorithms paradigm, that aims to provide a common platform for the development and test of new algorithms, in order to facilitate the performance comparison activity. Evoptool offers a wide set of benchmark problems, from classical toy samples to more complex tasks, and a collection of algorithm implementations from Genetic Algorithms and Estimation of Distribution Algorithms paradigms. Evoptool is flexible, easy to extend, also with algorithms based on other approaches other from EAs.

== Mailing List ==
http://groups.google.com/group/evoptool

== Download ==

svn checkout https://svn.ws.dei.polimi.it/evoptool/

== Installation ==
Follow these steps in order to compile evoptool

1. Download source code from svn https://svn.ws.dei.polimi.it/evoptool/

User:<br>
Password:

Refer to trunk for the lastest (instable) version of evoptool

2. First you need to manually compile the <code>l1_logreg-0.8.2</code> package, http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/l1_logreg/
whose source are already included in the evoptool repository. In order to do that follow the instrunctions in 
<code>README.evoptool</code> in the <code>l1_logreg-0.8.2</code> directory

Next, compile <code><id_dist/code> following the instructions in <code>README.evoptool<code> in the <code><id_dist/code> folder

3. Then you need to compile a module at a time. Each module is included in a different folder. 
To compile a module, from go to the module source folder and do make lib. For instance, for the module named <code>common</code>

<code>
cd common/src<br>
make lib<br>
cd ..<br>
</code>

Compile modules in the following order

<code>
common<br>
functions<br>
ga<br>
eda<br>
stochastic
</code>

To clean a module, do 

<code>make clean</code>

from the module source directory

4. Go to <code>core</code>  module and type

<code>make exe</code>

Binary files will be copied in the <code>bin</code> directory in the root as well as the <code>bin</code> directory of the <code>core</code> module

'''Required packages'''
* Libraries

** ''gtkmm-2.4''
** ''glademm-2.4''
** ''gthread-2.0''
** ''sigc++-2.0''
** ''opencv'' (see for instance http://www.samontab.com/web/2011/06/installing-opencv-2-2-in-ubuntu-11-04/)
** ''gsl''
** ''gslcblas''
** ''libxml++-2.6''

* Software
** ''gnuplot''

== Running  ==

Right now <code>evoptool</code> only runs as a script. GUI is not mantained in the latest version.
To run the algorithm from <code>bin</bin> in root you need to enter as input an xml file. For instance run

<code>./evoptool evoptool-file/examples/unitTestOneMax.xml</code>