Bug#819391: RFS: toulbar2/0.9.8 debian-science [ITP]
Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist
Dear mentors,
We are looking for a sponsor for the "toulbar2" software, in the debian-science
project.
A current version of its git repository is available on alioth, in the debian-
science/pkg-toulbar2 git repository.
Toulbar2 is an open source exact discrete optimization software targeted at
solving optimization problems that are described as "Graphical Models"
including Cost Function Networks, aka Weighted cConstraint Satisfaction
Problems, Markov Random Fields (MAP/MRF), Bayesian Nets (MPE), Weighted MaxSAT,
pre linkage files and Quadratic Pseudo Boolean Optimization problems. On such
problems, toulbar2 is often more efficient than expensive commercial ILP
(Integer Linear Programming) solvers.
Toulbar2 has won international solver competitions: the Weighted CSP
competition (first, in 2007 and 2008), the Uncertainly in AI challenge (first,
in 2010 and 2014) and the Pascal Inference challenge (second, in 2011).
It has been used in several scientific publications in machine learning,
theoretical computer science, statistical physics, genetics and structural
biology.
It has been developed for more than 10 years on our FusionForge server, hosted
by the MIA (Applied mathematics and Computer Science) Departement of INRA,
offering a stable and reliable environment. The forge also hosts the associated
costfunctionlib benchmark library:
https://mulcyber.toulouse.inra.fr/projects/toulbar2/
https://mulcyber.toulouse.inra.fr/projects/costfunctionlib
As a preliminary test, a prerelease of a debian source package can be obtained
at
https://launchpad.net/~thomas-schiex/+archive/ubuntu/toulbar2
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