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<h1>The Swarmbots Project</h1>
 
[[Image:DSC00001.JPG|thumb|The main gripper of an SBOT]]
 
* [[SBOT FAQ]] - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots
 
* [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve sbot arena time
 
* [[Compiling ODE, KODEX, and MISS]] - How to compile the open-source alternative to Vortex, ODE, a wrapper and the simulator MISS.
 
   
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* [[Robot labs around the World]]
 
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* [[Introduction to evolutionary robotics]] - Reading material for beginners (when Elio gets it done, which is probably never)
 
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* [[#anc1_1 | Moving and surviving in Brussels]]
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* [http://www.swarm-bots.org The official SwarmBots webpage]
 
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* [http://lis.epfl.ch/internal/wiki/index.php?page=SwarmBots SBOT technical resource page] - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation.
 
* [[The new simulator]] - Compiling, bug report, TODO.
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* [[#anc2_1 | Robotics]] (S-Bots, E-pucks, Software, Links)
   
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* [[#anc2_2 | Optimization]] (Links)
   
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* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]]
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<h1>Software and Hardware</h1>
 
* [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.
 
* [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA
 
* [[R and 3D plots]] - How to setup R and get it to plot experimental data in 3D.
 
* [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.
 
   
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* [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/seminars IRIDIA seminars]
   
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* [[#anc2_3 | Publications]] (how to publish IRIDIA reports, digital libraries)
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<h1>General Information</h1>
 
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* [[#anc3_1 | Hardware]] (configuration, backup, cluster, etc.)
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* [[#anc3_2 | Software]] (HOWTOs, homepage, etc.)
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* [[#material | Diverse material]] (Logos, graphic material, proceedings, etc.)
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* Fridays at 16h00 : [[Robotics weekly meetings | Robotics meetings]]
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* Thursdays at 11h00 : [[Optimization Group Meetings]]
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* [[PROJ-H-402 - Computing Project: Rules | PROJ-H-402]] (rules, list of projects, etc.)
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== Adding information ==
   
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* [[Moving to Brussels]] - Information on transport, short- and long-term accommodation.
 
* [[Surviving in Brussels]] - What you need to know once you have found a place to stay.
 
* [[University Administration]] - The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription etc.
 
   
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<h1>News</h1>
 
* [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/view.html?pg=1 Ethics for the Robot Age] (Wired article) - Should robots be humanoid? Should humans become robots? Should robots excrete byproducts? Should robots eat?
 
* [http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=26542005 Robot makers say World Cup will be theirs by 2050] (Scotsman News) - Japanese robotics experts claim robots will beat humans at football by 2050. Keio University of Tokyo recent winners of robot world cup in Lisbon. New robot, VisiON, stands 38cm tall and operates independently of humans.
 
* [http://www.businessweek.com/print/bwdaily/dnflash/nov2004/nf20041124_1072_db083.htm?chan=db%E2%8A%82=bw75& Toward a More Human Robot] (BusinessWeek article) - Interview with Takeo Kanade. As director of '''Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute''' from 1992 to 2001, Takeo Kanade has been one of the pioneers in the field of robotics. On the future of robotics, the US research situation and playfulness.
 
* [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/afp/20041201/lf_afp/afplifestyle_japan_041201101255 Japanese robot to chat lonely elderly out of senility] (Yahoo News) - Japan's growing elderly population from will be able to buy companionship in the form of a 45-centimeter (18-inch) robot, programmed to provide just enough small talk to keep them from going senile.
 
* [http://news.com.com/Army+to+deploy+robots+that+shoot/2100-7348_3-5473191.html?tag=nefd.top Army to deploy robots that shoot] (News.com article) - Next year, the U.S. Army will give robots machine guns, although humans will firmly be in control of them.
 
   
[http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]
 
   
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== <div id="anc1">Practicalities</div> ==
[[Old news]]
 
   
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* <div id="anc1_1">'''Brussels'''</div>
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** [[Moving to Brussels]] - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.).
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** [[Surviving in Brussels]] - French lessons, cultural events, etc.
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** [[Allocations de chomage]] - Allocations de chomage.
   
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* <div id="anc1_2">'''Students'''</div>
== Adding information ==
 
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** [[What you need to begin to work in IRIDIA]] - Resources to activate to work at IRIDIA.
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** [[For students visiting IRIDIA]] - Information for new students coming to IRIDIA.
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** [[University Administration]] - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc.
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** [[Equivalence]] - Step by step explanations to request an equivalence of diplomas from Belgium.
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** [[Funding]] - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out.
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** [[StudentsIRIDIA | Students]] - Information on students in IRIDIA.
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** [http://www.ulb.ac.be/dep/financier/perso-avantages/index.html Intranet for ULB employees] - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees
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** [[Insurance while travelling abroad]] - ULB's insurance
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** [https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ IRIDIA mailing lists]
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** [[ECTS formation doctorale]] - a description of what you can use as ECTS for your DEA/formation doctorale
   
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* <div id="anc1_3">'''Useful information'''</div>
A Wiki is an excellent tool to maintain dynamic information. If you want to add something to this Wiki feel very free contact the system administrator and get an account. It is straight-forward to add and change the information in MediaWiki. Simply press ''edit'' on the top of this page to see how it was done. If you create a link to a non-existing page within this Wiki you can create that page by following the link - of course you would need a login to do so!. Pictures and documents have to be [[Special:Upload|uploaded]] before they can be used on pages. All popular image formats are supported and pdf and ps documents are allowed.
 
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** [[Working late | Pizza]] - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance.
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** [http://wwwdev.ulb.ac.be/restaurants/solbosch_s/r_pub.php3 Weekly menu at ULB restaurant]
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** [http://www.snack44.net/ Snack 44] Menu for sandwich bar dans l'avenue de l'Université
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* <div id="lab_responsibilities">'''Lab responsibilities'''</div>
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** [[Lab responsibilities]] - list of labs responsibilities/tasks and who takes care of them.
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== <div id="anc2">Research</div> ==
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=== <div id="anc2_1">Robotics</div> ===
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* [[Robots | Main page for robots at IRIDIA]] - List of robots, technical information, how to access
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* [[Arena time slots]] - Reserve arena time
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* [[E-Pucks]] - All the information on how to use the e-pucks are here
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* [[Kilobots]] - Information about the Kilobots are here
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* [[Task Abstraction Module|The TAMs -- Task Abstraction Modules]] - All the information on how to use the TAMs are here
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* [[Robotics Technical Meetings]] - Informal meetings about E-Pucks, TAMs and Tracking system.
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* [[Robot work in progress | New robot??]] - Information about components, methods, and design of a new robot at IRIDIA
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* '''Software'''
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** [[ffmpeg | Using ffmpeg]] - Some examples on how to convert a set of frames to a video
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* '''Links & news'''
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** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS project website]
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** [[Robot labs around the World]]
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** [http://robots.net Read more news on robots.net...]
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** [[Old news]]
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=== <div id="anc2_2">Optimization</div> ===
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* '''Links & news'''
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** [http://www.informs.org/Resources/ INFORMS OR/MS]
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** [http://143.129.203.3/eume/php/eume.main.php EU/ME]
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** [http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~vdc/ECCO/ ECCO]
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* '''Multi-objective Algorithms Software'''
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** [http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/sop/pisa/ ETH - SOP - PISA]
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** [http://paradiseo.gforge.inria.fr/index.php?n=Main.MOEO ParadisEO-MOEO]
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** [http://shark-project.sourceforge.net/MOO-EALib/index.html Shark - MOO-EAlib]
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* '''Metaheuristics'''
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** [http://www.aco-metaheuristic.org Ant Colony Optimization]
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** [http://iew3.technion.ac.il/CE/about.php Cross Entropy Method]
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** [http://evonet.lri.fr/ Evolutionary Computing]
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** [http://www.research.att.com/~mgcr/grasp/gannbib/gannbib.html GRASP]
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** [http://www.tabusearch.net/ Tabu Search]
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* '''OR Software'''
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** [http://code.google.com/p/or-tools/ OR-Tools by Google]
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** [http://scip.zib.de/ SCIP]
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* '''Projects'''
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** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/comp2sys/ COMP2SYS]
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** [http://www.metaheuristics.org/ Metaheuristics Network]
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* '''Applications'''
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** [http://www.nada.kth.se/~viggo/wwwcompendium/ A compendium of NP optimization problems]
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** [http://www.tsp.gatech.edu/ TSP]
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** [http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/comopt/software/TSPLIB95/ TSPLIB95] - A Traveling Salesman Problem Library
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** [http://www.seas.upenn.edu/qaplib/ QAPLIB] - A Quadratic Assignment Problem Library
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** [http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastjjb/jeb/info.html OR-Library]
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** [http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~manuel/tsptw-instances Benchmark Instances for the Travelling Salesman Problem with Time Windows (TSPTW)]
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** [[Concorde]]
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* '''Experimental Analysis and Statistics'''
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** [http://www.r-project.org/ R project]
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** [[Tutorials_and_links_about_C%2C_R%2C_LateX_and_bash_(unix)#R | Tutorials and links about R]]
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** [http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/stathome.html Electronic Statistics Textbook. StatSoft, Inc. (2006)]
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** [http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/ NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods]
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**[http://www.keithbower.com/datasets/Audio%20Recordings.htm Videos on Statistical Concepts]
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* '''Software Development'''
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** [http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools] - Suggested compiler
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** [http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.pdf GNU Coding Standards] - Suggested coding style guidelines
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** [http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ GSL] - GNU Scientific Library
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** [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] - Suggested version control tool (see the page on the IRIDIA [[Development Server]] how to use it inside the lab)
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** [http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] - Suggested documentation tool for source code
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=== Generic Tutorials and Links ===
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* [[Tutorials and links about C, R, LateX and bash (unix)]]
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=== Neural Networks ===
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* [[Neural Network Tutorials]]
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=== <div id="anc2_3">Publications</div> ===
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* [[IRIDIA Technical reports]] - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s).
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* [[Conventions for Bibtex labels]] - Some conventions widely adopted at IRIDIA and used by the CoDE database.
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* [[Access to Digital Libraries]] - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network.
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* [[Iridia Supplementary Information Instructions page]] - Information on HOW TO use the Iridia Supplementary Information page.
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* [[Write Better English]] - Basic pointers on how to raise the level of english in your paper.
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* [[Embed Fonts in your PDFs]] - A guide on how to embed fonts on your PDFs for submission to conferences.
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== <div id="anc3">Infrastructure</div> ==
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* [[Infrastructure]] - Generalities, meetings, TODOS, etc.
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=== <div id="anc3_1">'''Hardware'''</div> ===
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* [[Workstation configuration]] - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.
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* [[Backup Server]] - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA
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* [[Development Server]] - How to use the IRIDIA development server and how to use subversion repositories
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* IRIDIA Cluster: See the [http://majorana.ulb.ac.be/wordpress/ Cluster Website] for usage information, tips and updates.
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* [[Using the IRIDIA Experimental room]] - All you need to know to easily run real experiments.
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* [[Workshop]] - Everything you wanted to know about the workshop but were afraid to ask
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* [[Laser Cutter]]
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* [[Shakers]]
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* [[Tracking System]]
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* [[Robotic Arena]]
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=== <div id="anc3_2">'''Software'''</div> ===
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* [[Creating your own home page]] - How to create your own home.
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* See all [[Software HOWTOs]]
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* Suggested software for [[Workstation_configuration#For_Mac_OS_X_users | Mac OS X]] users
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* List of [[Available_commercial_software | commercial software]] we have in IRIDIA
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* Howto create a [[howto_create_new_svn_repos | new svn repository ]] on the iridia server
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* Tune your algorithm on the [[Tuning_your_algorithm_with_irace_on_the_IRIDIA_cluster|IRIDIA cluster with irace]]
   
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=== <div id="material">'''Diverse Material'''</div> ===
For more information on the Wiki mark-up language see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page. When you become good at it, you can make cool looking pages.
 
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* [[Logos]]
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* [https://iridia-dev.ulb.ac.be/projects/material/svn SVN repository of graphical material] (for access see [[Development Server]])
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* [https://iridia-dev.ulb.ac.be/projects/optbib/svn SVN repository of BiBTeX files] (for access see [[Development Server]])
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* [https://iridia-dev.ulb.ac.be/projects/optsrc/svn SVN repository of optimization source code and benchmark problems] (for access see [[Development Server]])
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* [[ProceedingsRepository| Repository of Proceedings]]
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* [https://iridia.ulb.ac.be/Calendars Iridia Calendars]
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Welcome to IRIDIA's wiki.
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Practicalities

Research

Infrastructure

Weekly meetings

Teaching

WARNING : we have changed the access policy of the wiki. To consult some sensitive information, you need a login.

Adding information

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For more information on the Wiki mark-up language see Wikipedia's page about How to edit a page. When you become good at it, you can make cool looking pages.


Practicalities

  • Lab responsibilities
Back to top

Research

Robotics

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Optimization

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Generic Tutorials and Links

Neural Networks

Publications

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Infrastructure

Hardware

Software

Diverse Material

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