Hi Rcpp developers and users:

In the main point, this is to inform you about a new package that uses Rcpp:

Rmalschains: Continuous Optimization using Memetic Algorithms with Local Search 
Chains (MA-LS-Chains) in R

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rmalschains/index.html

Rmalschains is basically a wrapper for a C++ library of a special type of 
memetic algorithms that is developed by my research group. The interface (and 
some of the code) is inspired by RcppDE, so that it should be pretty easy to 
give Rmalschains a try in existing applications that use RcppDE. I found the 
algorithm being pretty competitive, especially with respect to the number of 
function evaluations, i.e., it runs pretty fast. It is also promoted by my 
group for being especially suited for high-dimensional problems, so you can 
also give it a try there.

Feedback is appreciated.

------------------------

The other thing is that I use this opportunity to promote the last version of 
RSNNS, which was released on 2012-01-10. RSNNS is a wrapper for the Stuttgart 
Neural Network Simulator (SNNS), a pretty comprehensive neural network library. 
The new version contains updated citation info to an article that we published 
in the Journal of Statistical Software:

Bergmeir, C., Benítez, J.M.
Neural networks in R using the Stuttgart neural network simulator: RSNNS
(2012) Journal of Statistical Software, 46 (7)
http://www.jstatsoft.org/v46/i07/

The article hopefully can serve as an introduction to get started using the 
package, and provides technical background and starting points if you are 
interested in the theoretical background. If you use the package, please 
consider citing the article.

Kind regards,
Christoph

--
Christoph Bergmeir
e-mail: c.bergm...@decsai.ugr.es
Grupo SCI2S, DiCITS Lab          (http://sci2s.ugr.es/DiCITS)
Dpto. de Ciencias de la Computacion e Inteligencia Artificial
E.T.S. Ingenierias de Informatica y Telecomunicacion
Universidad de Granada
18071 - GRANADA (Spain)
_______________________________________________
Rcpp-devel mailing list
Rcpp-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org
https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel

Reply via email to