May 22, 2012

MACROS 1.7 Released

MACROS development team is pleased to announce the release of MACROS 1.7.0.

This release brings a lot of new features, performance and stability improvements. A brief summary of new features is given below.

Generic Tool for Optimization

• Improved performance of Multi-Objective Robust Optimization algorithm.
• Improved performance and stability of NLP solver.

Generic Tool for Approximation

• Added new techniques: TA (Tensor Approximation) and GeoGP (Geostatistical Gaussian Processes).
• Added capability to perform model validation using separate test set in addition to InternalValidation.
• Added capability to specify trends for Gaussian Processes technique.

Generic Tool for Data Fusion

 The tool has been completely reworked:

• Added support of large training sets, O(100 000) points.
• Blackbox mode added, see ModelWithBlackbox class.
• Implemented Internal Validation, a number of corresponding options added.
• Added capability to perform model validation using separate test set in addition to InternalValidation.
• Documentation improved.          

Generic Tool for Important Variable Extraction

• Export to human readable format (Octave) of Dimension Reduction and Feature Extraction procedures.
• Improved robustness of Feature Selection methods in case of noisy input parameters.
• Added estimation of scores variance for all techniques.