Differential Evolution for Scilab (a free scientific SW package)

16.03.1999

Conversion by Walter Di Carlo
Please for any comment send me an email <walter.dicarlo@jrc.it>

Notes and authors of the source code are listed in the corresponding files.
The code has been tested with Scilab version 2.6. For the latest versions
and free downloads see http://scilabsoft.inria.fr/.


Instructions for use of the DE code:

1) Get the name of the directory which holds the DE files for
   Scilab (run1.sci, run2.sci, randperm.sci etc.).
2) Start Scilab.
3) Go to File | Change Directory and write the directory name
   in the appearing text field.
4) Modify the cost function rosen according to your own objective function.
5) Load all required functions with getf:
   getf randperm.sci
   getf rosen.sci 
   getf devec3.sci
6) Modify one of the executables (run1.sci, run2.sci) according to your needs.
7) Execute run1.sci or run2.sci using the command exec, for example: 
   exec run1.sci
