02-05-2009: Version 0.3-1 * simulation part of the CE algorithm coded in C. * Spearman distance coded in C. 9-19-2008: Version 0.2-1 * Genetic Algorithm added. * print and plot functions added for nicely formatted output. * convergence monitoring plot added. 7-15-2007: Version 0.1-1 * The first version of the package created. * Cross-Entropy Monte Carlo algorithm provided.