WebGE: An Open-Source Tool for Symbolic Regression Using Grammatical Evolution

Abstract

Many frameworks and libraries are available for researchers working on optimization. However, the majority of them require programming knowledge, lack of a friendly user interface and cannot be run on different operating systems. WebGE is a new optimization tool which provides a web-based graphical user interface allowing any researcher to use Grammatical Evolution and Differential Evolution on symbolic regression problems. In addition, the fact that it can be deployed on any server as a web service also incorporating user authentication, makes it a versatile and portable tool that can be shared by multiple researchers. Finally, the modular software architecture allows to easily extend WebGE to other algorithms and types of problems.