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Announcing GeneHunter 4.0
GeneHunter Adds Evolution Strategy, 64-bit, and Excel 2013
Ward Systems Group has announced Release 4 of GeneHunter, a powerful
software solution for many types of optimization problems. GeneHunter is
actually two products in one: an Excel Add-in and a library of genetic
optimization functions that you can call from your programs.
New Optimization Method
Release 4 of GeneHunter adds the Evolution
Strategy optimization method to the Excel interface . The
classic GeneHunter optimization method remains in the program. Evolution
Strategy is a variant of genetic algorithms that uses real numbers instead
of integers in chromosomes, and therefore does not cross segments of a
chromosome, but instead crosses whole chromosomes. The individuals
represent potential solutions to a problem. The individuals are tested by
a fitness function and the results are used to determine if the individual
will be included in the next generation of potential solutions. The
Evolution Strategy method is the default optimization method used in
NeuroShell Trader.
Excel Version Can Run as 64-Bit and Works with Excel 2013
The Excel Add-in is updated to work in both 64-bit as well as 32-bit
versions of Excel and Windows, up to and including Excel 2013. The
GeneHunter Excel Add-in may now be run as either a 64-bit or 32-bit
application in Excel 2013 and 2010. The GeneHunter Add-in continues to
run as a 32-bit application in Excel 2003 and Excel 2007. GeneHunter runs
under Windows XP, 7, 8, and 8.1 operating systems.
New .NET Programming Examples
Release 4 adds examples for Microsoft .NET versions of C* and
VB. The GeneHunter programming toolkit also include
s examples written in
VB6, MSVC6, and Delphi6.
Optimization with Multiple Constraints
The GeneHunter Excel Add-in can evolve a solution that meets the
requirements of a primary fitness function and at the same time satisfy
other constraints that affect the problem. For example, if you're trying
to design a manufacturing process that minimizes cost or time, but at the
same time maximizes product quality GeneHunter is the tool to use.
Neural Nets as Fitness Functions
If you don't know the formula for the fitness function, as long as you
have relevant data about the problem you can use the NeuroShell Predictor
to create the prediction model and then call that model as a fitness
function in Excel by using the NeuroShell Run-Time Server. The AI Trilogy
software program bundles the NeuroShell Predictor, Classifier, and
Run-Time Server as well as GeneHunter. Details are at
www.wardsystems.com/learnmore.asp.
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