INPUT: the intelligent parameter utilization tool

  • Authors:
  • Felix Dobslaw

  • Affiliations:
  • Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Computer experiments are part of the daily business for many researchers within the area of computational intelligence. However, there is no standard for either human or computer readable documentation of computer experiments. Such a standard could considerably improve the collaboration between experimental researchers, given it is intuitive to use. In response to this deficiency the Intelligent Param eter Utilization Tool ( InPUT ) is introduced. InPUT offers a general and programming language independent format for the definition of parameters and their ranges. It provides services to simplify the implementation of algorithms and can be used as a substitute for input mechanisms of existing frameworks. InPUT reduces code-complexity and increases the reusability of algorithm designs as well as the reproducibility of experiments. InPUT is available as open-source for Java and this will soon also be extended to C++, two of the predominant languages of choice for the development of evolutionary algorithms.