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Practicalities Moving and surviving in Brussels Information for students Useful informations (menu, pizza, etc...) Lab responsabilities	Research Robotics (S-Bots, E-pucks, Software, Links) Optimization (Links) IRIDIA reports IRIDIA seminars Publications (how to publish IRIDIA reports, digital libraries) Other seminars
Infrastructure Hardware (configuration, backup, cluster, etc...) Software (HOWTOs, homepage, etc...)	Weekly meetings Alternate Thursdays at 15h00 : Robotics meetings Alternate Thursdays at 15h00 : Literature meetings Thursdays at 10h30 : Administration weekly meeting Thursdays at 11h00 : Optimization weekly meeting

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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page. When you become good at it, you can make cool looking pages.

Detailed topics

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

• 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.

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Research

Robotics

• Swarmanoid
  • The official Swarmanoid webpage
  • The official Swarmanoid Wiki page

• Sbots
  • The official SwarmBots webpage
  • SBOT technical resource page - download the SBOT API and the tool chain for cross-compilation.
  • SBOT FAQ - howtos/faqs for the real s-bots
  • SBOT STATUS - The status of the s-bot in iridia (failures, errors, ...)
  • Arena time slots - Reserve sbot arena time

• E-pucks
  • The official website of e-pucks
  • The e-puck wiki at IRIDIA

• Software
  • Sbot Common Repository - Common version control area for all sbot development.
  • Sbot Common Interface - Write your controller once. Compile it for simulation and real robot.
  • OMiss - The ODE based simulator - Get started with the ODE based simulator
  • libsboteye the sboteye api to use 'easily' the camera.
  • libheading A library to detect directions pointed by other sbots.
  • tracker A program to track a single pattern in a sequence of pictures.
  • libdistortion 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
  • The e-puck page - About the e-puck robots.
  • Read more news on robots.net...
  • Old news

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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
  • Concorde
• Experimental Analysis and Statistics
  • R project
  • 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
  • Doxygen - Suggested documentation tool for source code

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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.

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Infrastructure

• Hardware
  • Workstation configuration - How to setup your personal workstation and laptop, printers, etc.
  • Backup Server - How to use the backup server of IRIDIA
  • 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

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