Evolution Machine:

The Evolution Machine (EM) is universally applicable to continuous (real-coded) OPTIMIZATION problems. In the EM we have coded fundamental EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMs (GENETIC ALGORITHMs and EVOLUTION STRATEGIEs), and added some of our approaches to evolutionary search.

The EM includes extensive menu techniques with:

• Default parameter setting for unexperienced users.

• Well-defined entries for EM-control by freaks of the EM, who want to leave the standard process control.

• Data processing for repeated runs (with or without change of the strategy parameters).

• Graphical presentation of results: online presentation of the EVOLUTION progress, one-, two- and three-dimensional graphic output to analyse the FITNESS function and the evolution process.

• Integration of calling MS-DOS utilities (Turbo C).

We provide the EM-software in object code, which can be run on PC's with MS-DOS and Turbo C, v2.0, resp. Turbo C++,v1.01. The Manual to the EM is included in the distribution kit.

The EM software is available by FTP from ftp://ftp- bionik.fb10.tu-berlin.de/pub/software/Evolution-Machine/ This directory contains the compressed files em_tc.exe (Turbo C), em_tcp.exe (Turbo C++) and em_man.exe (the manual). There is also em- man.ps.Z, a compressed PostScript file of the manual. If you do not have FTP access, please send us either 5 1/4 or 3 1/2 MS-DOS compatible disks. We will return them with the compressed files (834 kB).

Official contact information: Hans-Michael Voigt or Joachim Born, Technical University Berlin, Bionics and evolution Techniques Laboratory, Bio- and Neuroinformatics Research Group, Ackerstrasse 71-76 (ACK1), D-13355 Berlin, Germany. Net: <voigt@fb10.tu-berlin.de>, <born@fb10.tu- berlin.de> (Unverified 8/94).