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From: joe@gonzo.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Joachim Sprave)
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Subject: Announce: LICE-1.0
Date: 23 Jun 1994 09:49:55 GMT
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Keywords: Evolution Strategies, Local Selection

LICE is a parameter optimization program based on Evolution Strategies (ES). 
In contrast to classic ES, LICE has a local selection scheme to prevent
premature stagnation. Details and results have been presented at the EP'94
conference in San Diego.

LICE-1.0 is available as source code on 

	Host:  lumpi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
	Path:  /pub/ES/src/LICE-1.0.tar.gz
	Login: anonymous

LICE is written in ANSI-C (more or less), and has been tested on 
Sparc-stations and Linux-PCs. If you want plots and graphics, you need 
X11 and gnuplot. If you want a nice user interface to create parameter
files, you also need Tk/Tcl. 

Note: this is not exactly the version I used for my EP'94 experiments. 
      I cleaned up the code and added comments (a few).

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