schraudo@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Nici Schraudolph) (01/29/91)
Archive-name: ai/neural-nets/genesis-ucsd/1991-01-27 Archive: iuvax.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/alife/software/unix/GAucsd/GENESIS.*.Z [129.79.254.192] Original-posting-by: schraudo@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Nici Schraudolph) Original-subject: Re: GA software - GENESIS 1.2ucsd Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) >Anybody know of any public domain, freeware, shareware or other low-cost >software for genetic algorithms (a la Holland) and/or evolutionary >programming (a la Fogel)? I will, of course, post a summary of what I >receive; please respond by direct e-mail rather than a posting. I'll take the liberty of posting this since I was about to announce the latest release of our GENESIS GA software to this group in any case. This package is not to be confused with CalTech's identically named neural net simulator! The current release, 1.2ucsd, fixes all known bugs of earlier versions and adds several new features. So here goes: ------------------------------- cut here ------------------------------- GENESIS is a package for function optimization based on the genetic search techniques developed by John Holland, written and maintained by John J. Grefenstette (gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil). David Goldberg's book "Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning" (Addison-Wesley 1989) provides an introduction to these techniques. GENESIS is written in C under Unix but should easily be portable to many other operating systems. To make full use of our user interface, however, you do need versions of 'awk', 'sh' and 'make' on your machine. Starting from GENESIS 4.5, we at UCSD have begun developing our own enhanced versions of the package; our current revision is GENESIS 1.2ucsd. The source code (about 200kB) can be obtained free via anonymous ftp as follows: % mkdir GAucsd % cd GAucsd % ftp iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (or 129.79.254.192) Login: anonymous Password: <your e-mail address> ftp> cd pub/alife/software/unix/GAucsd ftp> binary ftp> get GENESIS.1.Z ftp> get GENESIS.2.Z ftp> get GENESIS.3.Z ftp> get GENESIS.4.Z ftp> quit % uncompress GENESIS.?.Z % chmod +x GENESIS.? % GENESIS.1 % GENESIS.2 % GENESIS.3 % GENESIS.4 % lpr UsersGuide % view README If you are not able to obtain the code this way you can use my mail server: just send me (nici%cs@ucsd.edu) a message with the subject line containing "send 1.2ucsd source". The body of the message will be ignored, so do not write anything of consequence! In reply you should receive four shell archive files to save and unpack. If after getting acquainted with GENESIS 1.2ucsd you wish to be put on a mailing list for bug reports and other updates, send me a message to that effect. Note that although I do appreciate and react to bug reports, I do not accept any responsibility for correctness or suitability of 1.2ucsd for any purpose whatsoever. San Diego, 01/27/90 -- Nicol N. Schraudolph, C-014 | "And long cars in long lines University of California, San Diego | And great big signs, and they all say: La Jolla, CA 92093-0114 | Hallelujah. Every man for himself." nici%cs@ucsd.{edu,bitnet,uucp} | - Laurie Anderson, "Big Science".
schraudo@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Nici Schraudolph) (01/29/91)
Archive-name: astro/navigation/metcalf-nav/1991-01-27 Archive: mamane.ifa.hawaii.edu:/pub/metcalf/nav.dist.ver4 [128.171.5.11] Original-posting-by: schraudo@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Nici Schraudolph) Original-subject: Re: GA software - GENESIS 1.2ucsd Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) >Anybody know of any public domain, freeware, shareware or other low-cost >software for genetic algorithms (a la Holland) and/or evolutionary >programming (a la Fogel)? I will, of course, post a summary of what I >receive; please respond by direct e-mail rather than a posting. I'll take the liberty of posting this since I was about to announce the latest release of our GENESIS GA software to this group in any case. This package is not to be confused with CalTech's identically named neural net simulator! The current release, 1.2ucsd, fixes all known bugs of earlier versions and adds several new features. So here goes: ------------------------------- cut here ------------------------------- GENESIS is a package for function optimization based on the genetic search techniques developed by John Holland, written and maintained by John J. Grefenstette (gref@aic.nrl.navy.mil). David Goldberg's book "Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning" (Addison-Wesley 1989) provides an introduction to these techniques. GENESIS is written in C under Unix but should easily be portable to many other operating systems. To make full use of our user interface, however, you do need versions of 'awk', 'sh' and 'make' on your machine. Starting from GENESIS 4.5, we at UCSD have begun developing our own enhanced versions of the package; our current revision is GENESIS 1.2ucsd. The source code (about 200kB) can be obtained free via anonymous ftp as follows: % mkdir GAucsd % cd GAucsd % ftp iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (or 129.79.254.192) Login: anonymous Password: <your e-mail address> ftp> cd pub/alife/software/unix/GAucsd ftp> binary ftp> get GENESIS.1.Z ftp> get GENESIS.2.Z ftp> get GENESIS.3.Z ftp> get GENESIS.4.Z ftp> quit % uncompress GENESIS.?.Z % chmod +x GENESIS.? % GENESIS.1 % GENESIS.2 % GENESIS.3 % GENESIS.4 % lpr UsersGuide % view README If you are not able to obtain the code this way you can use my mail server: just send me (nici%cs@ucsd.edu) a message with the subject line containing "send 1.2ucsd source". The body of the message will be ignored, so do not write anything of consequence! In reply you should receive four shell archive files to save and unpack. If after getting acquainted with GENESIS 1.2ucsd you wish to be put on a mailing list for bug reports and other updates, send me a message to that effect. Note that although I do appreciate and react to bug reports, I do not accept any responsibility for correctness or suitability of 1.2ucsd for any purpose whatsoever. San Diego, 01/27/90 -- Nicol N. Schraudolph, C-014 | "And long cars in long lines University of California, San Diego | And great big signs, and they all say: La Jolla, CA 92093-0114 | Hallelujah. Every man for himself." nici%cs@ucsd.{edu,bitnet,uucp} | - Laurie Anderson, "Big Science".