Theoretical Chemistry

global optimization

home pages of groups and departments

• IlliGAL, David Goldberg’s “Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory”, including a list of other GA info sites, and interesting tech reports, also on the topic of classifier systems and mixed classifier system/GA approaches
• Evolution Strategy group at TU Berlin (Ingo Rechenberg)
• Lehrstuhl fuer Systemanalyse, Dortmund (H.-P.Schwefel, T.Baeck)
• George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia (Kenneth DeJong’s GA group, etc.)
• Naval Research Lab, including the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (John Grefenstette, Kenneth DeJong, William Spears, etc.) which maintainsGA-list archives
• David M.Deaven’s home page at Iowa State University
• EvoWeb, the European Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing, by Ben Paechter’s evolutionary computation research group at the Department of Computer Studies, Napier University, Edinburgh
• global optimization www info page, by Simon Streltsov
• Adaptive Simulated Annealing by Lester Ingber (click here for old link)
• Global Optimization page of the engineering dept. of Boston University
• Global Optimization page by Arnold Neumaier, University of Vienna
• OR-Library, a collection of test data sets for many optimization problems, maintained byJ.E.Beasley
• Genetic Programming Inc., by John R. Koza (partly identical to: genetic-programming.org)
• Blue Gene, IBM’s attempt to crack protein folding with a petaflop computer
• János Pintér‘s home page at Dalhousie University, Canada (LGO and related stuff); see also his intro on continuous global optimization in ITORMS (an electronic journal ofINFORMS)
• Intelligent Systems Group at the Universidad del País Vasco, and “Estimation of Distribution Algorithms”
• Global optimization link list by Gennady Ryzhikov, Bergen
• survey of globopt methods by William Hart et al., Sandia National Lab
• clustering multistart method, described by Aimo Törn, Finland
• Prof. Schuster‘s and PD Bornholdt‘s group, Theoretical Physics, Uni Kiel
• U.H.E.Hansmann at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, USA
• GAMS global forum

programs, algorithms and problems

• compendium of NP optimization problems
• Computational Biology Tools by the Cornell Theory Center, including e.g. ECEPPAK protein folding, by Elber & Scheraga
• Polymorph Predictor (crystal structure prediction, by Accelrys (ex-MSI)
• UPACK (crystal structure prediction, by B.P.van Eijck, Utrecht)
• PyGMO, a global optimization suite in Python

GA/evolutionary computing links and meta lists

• Softcomputing-Initiative Stuttgart
• SFB 531 Computational Intelligence, Uni Dortmund
• EU/ME, European chapter on metaheuristics, a EURO working group
• list of EC books, by John Koza
• IlliGAL, David Goldberg’s “Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory”, including a list of other GA info sites, and interesting tech reports, also on the topic of classifier systems and mixed classifier system/GA approaches
• GA-list archives
• The Clearinghouse for Genetic Algorithms, University of Alabama
• GA rules of thumb, collection of GA theory and implementation hints
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Evolutionary Computing, see also mirror sites in Germany, UK, and at the Santa Fe Institute
• Genetic Algorithm Optimization Toolbox, a Matlab implementation
• The Genetic Programming Notebook, by Jaime J. Fernandez (many links to GA-related sites) (european mirror site)
• GA links by Joe Culberson, University of Alberta
• GA’s and protein folding, an online treatise by Dr. Steffen Schulze-Kremer
• Evolutionary Algorithms in Computer-Aided Molecular Design, a big literature list maintained by David E. Clark, University of Sheffield
• GA ligand docking program GOLD, by Peter Willett et al., University of Sheffield, see alsothis link at the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (they also distribute the Cambridge Structural Database)
• FlexGA, a GA in matlab, by mathtools.com
• EC glossary by Hans-Georg Beyer
• Evolutionary computation bibliographies, by Bill Langdon
• Memetic algorithms discussion list on yahoo

classifier systems

• IlliGAL, David Goldberg’s “Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory”, including a list of other GA info sites, and interesting tech reports, also on the topic of classifier systems and mixed classifier system/GA approaches
• learning classifier systems bibliography, by Tim Kovacs, Birmingham

protein folding

• folding@home, see also the folding community forum and a success story CPHmodels 2.0 server (homology modeling) ESyPred3D server (homology modeling) Swiss-model server(homology modeling) 3D-pssm server (homology modeling)

Last updated on Tue Dec 13 08:45:54 MET DST 2011