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Welcome to IRIDIA's wiki. Practicalities Moving and surviving in Brussels Information for students Useful informations (menu, pizza, etc...) Lab responsibilities Research Robotics (S-Bots, E-pucks, Software, Links) Optimization (Links) IRIDIA Technical reports IRIDIA seminars Publications (how to publish IRIDIA reports, digital libraries) Other seminars Infrastructure Hardware (configuration, backup, cluster, etc.) Software (HOWTOs, homepage, etc.) Diverse material (Logos, graphic material, proceedings, etc.) Weekly meetings Wednesdays at 15h00 : Robotics meetings Thursdays at 10h30 : Administration weekly meeting Thursdays at 11h00 : Optimization Group Meetings WARNING : we have changed the access policy of the wiki. To consult some sensitive information, you need a login. Adding information 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 uploaded before they can be used on pages. All popular image formats are supported and pdf and ps documents are allowed . 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 Brussels Moving to Brussels - What you need to know for moving to Brussels (housing, transport, health care, etc.). Surviving in Brussels - French lessons, cultural events, etc. Students What you need to begin to work in IRIDIA - Resources to activate to work at IRIDIA. For students visiting IRIDIA - Information for new students coming to IRIDIA. University Administration - (IMPORTANT!) The what, the where and the how of navigating university bureaucracy - inscription, regulations etc. Equivalence - Step by step explanations to request an equivalence of diplomas from Belgium. Funding - Information on getting funding for projects, scholarships and unemployment benefits in Belgium once the Ph.D. grant runs out. Students - Information on students in IRIDIA. Intranet for ULB employees - Web site with list of benefit for being ULB employees Insurance while travelling abroad - ULB's insurance IRIDIA mailing lists ECTS formation doctorale - a description of what you can use as ECTS for your DEA/formation doctorale Useful information Pizza - menu for the local pizza place, it is a good idea to order in advance. Weekly menu at ULB restaurant Snack 44 Menu for sandwich bar dans l'avenue de l'Université Lab responsibilities Lab responsibilities - list of labs responsibilities/tasks and who takes care of them. Back to top Research Robotics Main page for robots at IRIDIA - List of robots, technical information, how to access Arena time slots - Reserve arena time E-Pucks - All the information on how to use the e-pucks are here Software tracker A program to track a single pattern in a sequence of pictures. libdistortion (BROKEN LINK) a simple library to rectify camera images and extract easily real world coordinates of objects. Links & news COMP2SYS project website Robot labs around the World Read more news on robots.net... Old news Back to top Optimization Links & news INFORMS OR/MS EU/ME ECCO MH/SLS forum Metaheuristics Ant Colony Optimization Cross Entropy Method Evolutionary Computing GRASP Tabu Search Harmony Search Projects COMP2SYS Metaheuristics Network Applications A compendium of NP optimization problems TSP TSPLIB95 - A Traveling Salesman Problem Library QAPLIB - A Quadratic Assignment Problem Library OR-Library Benchmark Instances for the Travelling Salesman Problem with Time Windows (TSPTW) Concorde Experimental Analysis and Statistics R project Tutorials and links about R Electronic Statistics Textbook. StatSoft, Inc. (2006) NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods Videos on Statistical Concepts Software Development C99 standard and use GCC compiler tools - Suggested compiler GNU Coding Standards - Suggested coding style guidelines GSL - GNU Scientific Library Subversion - Suggested version control tool (see the page on the IRIDIA Development Server how to use it inside the lab) Doxygen - Suggested documentation tool for source code Back to top Generic Tutorials and Links Tutorials and links about C, R, LateX and bash (unix) Neural Networks Neural Network Tutorials Publications IRIDIA Technical reports - Information on publishing a technical report and LaTeX package(s). Access to Digital Libraries - Which on-line papers archive we have access from IRIDIA network. Iridia Supplementary Information Instructions page - Information on HOW TO use the Iridia Supplementary Information page. Write Better English - Basic pointers on how to raise the level of english in your paper. Back to top Infrastructure Hardware Workstation configuration - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc. Backup Server - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA Development Server - How to use the IRIDIA development server and how to use subversion repositories IRIDIA Cluster: See the Cluster Website for usage information, tips and updates. Using the IRIDIA Experimental room - All you need to know to easily run real experiments. Software Creating your own home page - How to create your own home. See all Software HOWTOs Suggested software for Mac OS X users List of commercial software we have in IRIDIA Howto create a new svn repository on the iridia server Diverse Material Logos SVN repository of graphical material (for access see Development Server) Repository of Proceedings Back to top