Bridging Theory and Practice Through Modular Graphical User Interfaces
Frederik Rehbach, JÃƒÂ¶rg Stork, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein
Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2018.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6025/jmpt/2018/9/4/134-140
Link: http://www.dline.info/jmpt/fulltext/v9n4/jmptv9n4_3.pdf
Abstract:
State-of-the-art evolutionary algorithms and related search heuristics are well suited to solve problems from
industry. Unfortunately, easy to use graphical user interfaces (GUI) are not available for many algorithms. We claim that the
availability of well-designed GUIs might increase the acceptance of these algorithms in the real-world domain. The spotGUI
R-package, which is introduced in this paper, provides a GUI for the already well-established SPOT package. It includes
state-of-the-art algorithms and modeling techniques that can be used without the requirement of optimization or programming
knowledge. Using the spotGUI in industry, as well as education, delivered first promising results.