Evolvica

The latest version is 0.6.3. As of version 0.6.0 Evolvica comes in two flavours: a stand-alone version and a plugin version. The stand-alone version is basically a stripped down Eclipse IDE including the necessary core and the Java development tools (and a beautiful splash screen ;-)). Unnecessary things like the plugin development kit, team support or external tools support have been removed. Besides it is an experiment to learn about how to strip down Eclipse to "be" and to "look" like a custom application. This version is intended for users not familiar with Eclipse requiring a just some tool for playing with evolutionary computation. Prepackaged versions for Linux, Solaris and Windows can be downloaded below. There was an older package for MacOS X, but it did not do its job as it was intended. At this point some help is required for preparing an OS X package.

  Evolvica 0.6.3 for Linux/GTK (31.3 MB)
  Evolvica 0.6.3 for Solaris/Motif (31.4 MB)
  Evolvica 0.6.3 for Windows (33.2 MB)
  Update from an ealier 0.6.x release (3.5MB)

The update is for people already running an earlier version of Evolvica. To update Evolvica extract the contents of the zip-file into the folder where you installed Evolvica. In the subdirectories features and plugins you can find directories named org.evolvica.*_<version number>. You can safely remove all directories carrying an older version number than the current one.

The second version is the plugin version that can be used directly in an existing Eclipse installation. It only contains the necessary plugins. To install just copy the contents of the zipfile to your Eclipse plugins- resp. features folder. Evolvica has been tested with the current Eclipse version 2.1.3. The current milestone 3.0 M8 is untested, you need to try for yourself. This version is intended for advanced users requiring the full Eclipse IDE functionality and would like to integrate Evolvica in their existing installation.

Evolvica 0.6.3 Plugin Version for Eclipse (7.0 MB)

In additions it is recommended to download some examples. To install the examples start Evolvica and create a new project. Copy the files from the zipfile into the project directory and invoke a "Refresh" in the Evolvica project navigator view. The example operators and algorithms will appear in the view. A note for the plugin-users: make sure to create a new project via the Evolvica project navigator, otherwise necessary libraries will not be added to the project's classpath and you will not be able to run the example algorithms. Evolvica Examples (0.15 MB)

Note: The UNIX versions were packaged under Windows so you need to make a chmod +x evolvica on the main executable after unpacking. At first start-up Evolvica tries to create a workspace directory in the directory where it was installed. If you want to set another location for the workspace directory start Evolvica with the command-line argument -data <other workspace directory>.

Note 2: If there's someone out there who requires versions for other systems please drop us an email. Beside the systems given above Evolvica can be built for AIX/Motif, HP-UX/Motif, MacOS X/Carbon and QNX/Photon. Unfortunately I'm not able to check these versions for operativeness.