Q15.3: What online information repositories are there?
Many research institutes have online repositories of information
which my be retrieved using FTP or (increasingly), World Wide Web
(WWW).
NOTE: See also Q14 above.
ENCORE
ENCORE (The EvolutioNary COmputation REpository network) is a
collection of anonymous FTP servers providing a wealth of information
in the area of EC, from technical reports, copies of journal
articles, down to source code for various EAs. ENCORE acts as a
distributor of much material generated at research institutes (and
other places) which don't necessarily have their own FTP servers.
Each node of ENCORE is referred to as an "EClair". The default
EClair node of ENCORE is at the Santa Fe Institute (USA):
o alife.santafe.edu:/pub/USER-AREA/EC/
Other sites mirror the contents of the default node, and include: The
Chinese University of Hong Kong:
o ftp.cs.cuhk.hk:/pub/EC/
The University of Warwick (United Kingdom):
o ftp.dcs.warwick.ac.uk:/pub/mirrors/EC/
EUnet Deutschland GmbH (Germany):
o ftp.Germany.EU.net:/pub/research/softcomp/EC/
The California Institute of Technology:
o ftp.krl.caltech.edu:/pub/EC/
Wayne State University, Detroit:
o ftp.cs.wayne.edu:/pub/EC/
University of Cape Town, South Africa:
o ftp.uct.ac.za:/pub/mirrors/EC/
The Michigan State University, East Lansing:
o ftp.egr.msu.edu:/pub/EC/
Well worth getting is "The Navigator's Guide to ENCORE", a handbook
to this service, in file:
o handbook/encore.ps.gz (A4 paper) or
o handbook/encore-US.ps.gz (US letter size paper).
ENCORE is administered by Joerg Heitkoetter <joke@Germany.EU.net>.
The Santa Fe Institute
The Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity (SFI)
issues a recommended series: SFI Studies in the Science of
Complexity, published by Addison Wesley and maintains a well-sorted
FTP server with EC related material.
o Admin requests: <ftp@santafe.edu>
o Anonymous FTP archive: ftp.santafe.edu:/pub/
Information on SUMMERSCHOOLs held by the SFI can be obtained from:
Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA.
The Australian National University (ANU)
The Bioinformatics facility at Australian National University has set
up an anonymous FTP server, that contains EC related material,
maintained by David G. Green.
o Admin requests: <david.green@anu.edu.au>
o Anonymous FTP archive: life.anu.edu.au:/pub/complex_systems/alife/
o Gopher protocol: Besides direct access to all FTP information, the
gopher server offers online access to relevant newsgroups, online
databases and direct links to relevant international services.
Name=Complex systems, Host=life.anu.edu.au, Type=1, Port=70,
Path=1/complex_systems.
o World Wide Web protocol: Besides access to all of the above, the
hypermedia server offers introductory tutorials, preprints and
papers online. The URL for this service is
http://life.anu.edu.au/complex_systems/complex.html or link via
the servers home page http://life.anu.edu.au/
LGI laboratory, Grenoble, France
Research into Parallel GENETIC ALGORITHMs: papers (technical reports,
conference and journal articles, theses, monographies, etc...)
written by members of the SYMPA team are available by FTP from
o imag.fr:/pub/SYMPA/
Their adress is: SYMPA/LGI - Institut IMAG, BP 53 38041 Grenoble
Cedex, FRANCE <muntean@imag.fr>
The University of Alabama, Department of Computer Science
A number of papers and preprints are available in compressed
Postscript form by FTP from the Univ. of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) from
aramis.cs.ua.edu:/pub/tech-reports/ The naming convention for files
is: (author's last name).(journal name).ps . Maintained by Dr. Ron
Sun <rsun@athos.cs.ua.edu>
CMU Artificial Intelligence Repository
Holds more than a gigabyte of software, publications, and other
materials of interest to AI researchers, educators, students, and
practitioners. The AI Programming Languages and the AI Software
Packages sections of the repository can be accessed in the lang/ and
areas/ subdirectories. Other directories, which are in varying states
of completion, are events/ and pubs/ (Publications, including
technical reports, books, mail/news archives).
The AI Programming Languages section includes directories for Common
Lisp, Prolog, Scheme, Smalltalk, and other AI-related programming
languages. The AI Software Packages section includes subdirectories
for: alife/ (ARTIFICIAL LIFE), anneal/ (Simulated Annealing),
genetic/ (GENETIC ALGORITHMs etc., including benchmarks and test
problems) and many more.
The AI Repository is accessible by FTP at: ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/
(Be sure to read the files 0.doc and readme.txt in this directory)
and by WWW at the URL:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/Groups/AI/html/repository.html It is
also available on CD-ROM (See Q10.10).
The MSU Genetic Algorithms Research and Applications Group (GARAGe)
GARAGe has a number of interesting projects, both in terms of GA and
GP fundamental research and in GA/GP applications including:
parallelization of GAs/GPs; multiple POPULATION topologies and
interchange methodologies; scheduling applications, including
sponsored research on job-floor scheduling; design applications,
including sponsored research on composite material design;
configuration applications, particularly physics applications of
optimal molecule configurations for particular systems like C60
(buckyballs) and others.
Information on GARAGe research projects is available by WWW at the
URL: http://isl.cps.msu.edu/GA
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, University of Sussex
The Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Group in COGS does a
significant amount of research in the area of GAs and Neural Networks
and modeling the process of biological development. For purposes of
artificial EVOLUTION, many at COGS see this as the major issue to be
tackled. For general info about the group, consult the WWW server
at: ">www.cogs.susx.ac.uk:/lab/adapt/index.html">http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk:/lab/adapt/index.html
The Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence
The Navy Center for Applied Research in ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
(NCARAI) is conducting basic research in the analysis of GAs and
other evolutionary algorithms. GAs are being applied to the learning
of strategies and behaviors for autonomous vehicles, and for
adaptively testing complex systems such as vehicle controllers. You
will find description of projects, researchers, and downloadable
papers at URL http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/ in addition to other
information. The GA-digest and the GENETIC ALGORITHMs Archive are
maintained at NCARAI. See Q15.1, "Genetic Algorithms Digest", for
more information.
Case Western Reserve University
A WWW home page is available for the CWRU Autonomous Agents Research
Group at: ftp://alpha.ces.cwru.edu/pub/agents/home.html
The group, led by Randall Beer, conducts interdisciplinary research
in the departments of Computer Engineering and Science, Biology,
Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Engineering. This research
includes work in evolutionary algorithms, mobile robotics, and
computational biology. The aim is to study the mechanisms that can
produce adaptive behavior in animals and ROBOTs.
Currently available are Postscript versions of a number of our
research papers (in particular, those related to mobile robotics,
evolving recurrent neural networks, and computational models of
development), an HTML version of a paper on computational development
which appeared in ALIFE IV, and images of the ROBOTs used in our
research.
Comments to <yamauchi@alpha.ces.cwru.edu>
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