EPO EPO (the Evolutionary Parameter Optimizer) is a small evolution strategy library written in C. The user only has to supply a subroutine for target function calculation and the parameter set boundary values, with the rest of the optimization framework being supplied automatically. Although the predefined settings allow a very quick start, EPO may be adapted to more complex problems rather easily. A mostly complete library of evolution system calls allows intervention into the variable treatment and the report generation. EPO has been successfully applied to various fields: mixed integer non- linear optimization for chemical engineering problems, fits of overlapping optical spectra, parameter adaptation of multicomponent material properties models and similar.

Current Version:   0.9a License Type:   Shareware

Home Site: http://telemann.ltt.rwth-aachen.de/epo/ Source Code Availability: Yes Available Binary Packages: Debian Package: No RedHat RPM Package: No Other Packages: Yes Targeted Platforms: Linux x86, other platforms upon request Software/Hardware Requirements: C compiler, Make utility

Other Links: None Mailing Lists/USENET News Groups: None User Comments: Publications on developments produced with the EPO package: http://telemann.ltt.rwth-aachen.de/~roosen/papers/pvopti-96/ (German), and http://telemann.ltt.rwth-aachen.de/~roosen/papers/chemeng-96/paper.html, more to follow. See A Screen Shot? (No graphical user interface)

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