Package: hydroPSO
Type: Package
Title: Particle Swarm Optimisation, with focus on Environmental Models
Version: 0.3-3
Date: 2013-06-04
Author: Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini [aut, cre], Rodrigo Rojas [ctb]
Authors@R: c(person("Mauricio", "Zambrano-Bigiarini",
        email="mzb.devel@gmail.com", role=c("aut","cre")),
        person("Rodrigo", "Rojas",
        email="Rodrigo.RojasMujica@gmail.com", role=c("ctb")) )
Maintainer: Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini <mzb.devel@gmail.com>
Description: This package implements a state-of-the-art version of the
        Particle Swarm Optimisation (PSO) algorithm (SPSO-2011 and
        SPSO-2007 capable). hydroPSO can be used as a replacement of
        the 'optim' R function for (global) optimization of non-smooth
        and non-linear functions. However, the main focus of hydroPSO
        is the calibration of environmental and other real-world models
        that need to be executed from the system console. hydroPSO is
        model-independent, allowing the user to easily interface any
        computer simulation model with the calibration engine (PSO).
        hydroPSO communicates with the model through the model's own
        input and output files, without requiring access to the model's
        source code. Several PSO variants and controlling options are
        included to fine-tune the performance of the calibration engine
        to different calibration problems. An advanced sensitivity
        analysis function together with user-friendly plotting
        summaries facilitate the interpretation and assessment of the
        calibration results. hydroPSO is parallel-capable, to alleviate
        the computational burden of complex models with "long"
        execution time. Bugs reports/comments/questions are very
        welcomed (in English, Spanish or Italian).
License: GPL (>= 2)
Depends: R (>= 2.13.0)
Imports: Hmisc, sp, lattice, zoo, grid
Suggests: hydroGOF(>= 0.3-5), hydroTSM(>= 0.3-6), zoo(>= 1.7-2), xts(>=
        0.8-2), lhs, parallel, scatterplot3d, vioplot
URL: http://www.rforge.net/hydroPSO,
        http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/hydroPSO
Keywords: optimisation, optimization, calibration, environment,
        environmental sciences, hydrology, PSO
LazyLoad: yes
ByteCompile: TRUE
Packaged: 2013-06-04 18:22:41 UTC; hzambran
NeedsCompilation: no
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2013-06-06 14:05:27
