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Right now <code>evoptool</code> only runs as a script. GUI is not maintained in the latest version. | Right now <code>evoptool</code> only runs as a script. GUI is not maintained in the latest version. | ||
| − | The <code>evoptool</code> binary file is supposed to be run in the <code>bin</code> directory in the root, this is because right now the script looks for some configuration files, for the instances of the problems, and temp directories. If you want to run the script from other directories, you just need to copy in that directory the <code>evoptool-file</code> directory that you find in the <code>bin</code> directory. Link such directory | + | The <code>evoptool</code> binary file is supposed to be run in the <code>bin</code> directory in the root, this is because right now the script looks for some configuration files, for the instances of the problems, and temp directories. If you want to run the script from other directories, you just need to copy in that directory the <code>evoptool-file</code> directory that you find in the <code>bin</code> directory. Link such directory instead of copying it is not safe if you run multiple scripts at the same time, since output files will be shared. |
To run the algorithm you need to enter as input an xml file. For instance you can run | To run the algorithm you need to enter as input an xml file. For instance you can run | ||
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Each execution of <code>evoptool</code> produces a set of files as output. You can find all files in <code>evoptool-file/temp</code> directory. Plus a tar.gz file containing such files can be produced at the end of the execution of <evoptool>. See the xml file for details. | Each execution of <code>evoptool</code> produces a set of files as output. You can find all files in <code>evoptool-file/temp</code> directory. Plus a tar.gz file containing such files can be produced at the end of the execution of <evoptool>. See the xml file for details. | ||
| − | <code>evoptool-file/temp/data</code>contains the raw data of the statistics according to the xml file | + | <code>evoptool-file/temp/data</code> |
| − | <code>evoptool-file/temp/gnuplot</code>contains the gnuplot files to produce images of the statistics | + | contains the raw data of the statistics according to the xml file |
| − | <code>evoptool-file/temp/image</code>contains images of the statistics produced according to the xml file | + | |
| − | <code>evoptool-file/temp/support/code>contains logs | + | <code>evoptool-file/temp/gnuplot</code> |
| + | contains the gnuplot files to produce images of the statistics | ||
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| + | <code>evoptool-file/temp/image</code> | ||
| + | contains images of the statistics produced according to the xml file | ||
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| + | <code>evoptool-file/temp/support/code> | ||
| + | contains logs | ||
Revision as of 20:22, 21 October 2011
Evoptool Team
- Matteo Matteucci - matteucci [AT] elet.polimi.it
- Luigi Malagò - malago [AT] elet.polimi.it
- 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:
Password:
Refer to trunk for the lastest (instable) version of evoptool
2. First you need to manually compile the l1_logreg-0.8.2 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
README.evoptool in the l1_logreg-0.8.2 directory
Next, compile <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
cd common/src
make lib
cd ..
Compile modules in the following order
common
functions
ga
eda
stochastic
To clean a module, do
make clean
from the module source directory
4. Go to core module and type
make exe
Binary files will be copied in the bin directory in the root as well as the bin directory of the core 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 evoptool only runs as a script. GUI is not maintained in the latest version.
The evoptool binary file is supposed to be run in the bin directory in the root, this is because right now the script looks for some configuration files, for the instances of the problems, and temp directories. If you want to run the script from other directories, you just need to copy in that directory the evoptool-file directory that you find in the bin directory. Link such directory instead of copying it is not safe if you run multiple scripts at the same time, since output files will be shared.
To run the algorithm you need to enter as input an xml file. For instance you can run
./evoptool evoptool-file/examples/unitTestOneMax.xml
The evoptool-file/example directory contains a set of xml files for different benchmarks and different algorithms.
Take a loot at the example.xml file for the documentation on hoe to set the parameters for an each execution of evoptool
Each execution of evoptool produces a set of files as output. You can find all files in evoptool-file/temp directory. Plus a tar.gz file containing such files can be produced at the end of the execution of <evoptool>. See the xml file for details.
evoptool-file/temp/data
contains the raw data of the statistics according to the xml file
evoptool-file/temp/gnuplot
contains the gnuplot files to produce images of the statistics
evoptool-file/temp/image
contains images of the statistics produced according to the xml file
evoptool-file/temp/support/code>
contains logs
