ESCaPaDE:

ESCaPaDE is a sophisticated software environment to run experiments with EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMs, such as e.g. an EVOLUTION STRATEGY. The main support for experimental work is provided by two internal tables: (1) a table of objective functions and (2) a table of so-called data monitors, which allow easy implementation of functions for monitoring all types of information inside the Evolutionary Algorithm under experiment.

ESCaPaDE 1.2 comes with the KORR implementation of the evolution strategy by H.-P. Schwefel which offers simple and correlated MUTATIONs. KORR is provided as a FORTRAN 77 subroutine, and its cross-compiled C version is used internally by ESCaPaDE.

An extended version of the package was used for several investigations so far and has proven to be very reliable. The software and its documentation is fully copyrighted although it may be freely used for scientific work; it requires 5-6 MB of disk space.

In order to obtain ESCaPaDE, please send a message to the e-mail address below. The SUBJECT line should contain 'help' or 'get ESCaPaDE'. (If the subject lines is invalid, your mail will be ignored!). For more information contact: Frank Hoffmeister, Systems Analysis Research Group, LSXI, Department of Computer Science, University of Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany. Net: <hoffmeister@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>