April 27, 2021: New Release – HUGIN 9.0

Today we are releasing a new version of the HUGIN software (v9.0).

The main improvement of HUGIN software in version 9.0 is a new Look & Feel experience of the HUGIN Graphical User Interface and associated updates. In addition, users may experience a smoother installation experience on windows and Mac operating systems.

HUGIN Graphical User Interface v. 9.0

The HUGIN Graphical User Interface has been improved with various new features. These include:

• New Look & Feel implemented across all supported platforms (Linux, Mac OS, and Windows)
  • Drag & Drop to open a file
  • Improved PDF export
  • The layout of the menus and toolbar has been refactored
  • Dark and white theme is now available for the GUI. Themes can be swapped in the preferences menu
  • Node edges are significantly more smooth
  • New mordern icons that are bigger and transparent to support the new themes and larger resolutions
• Improvements to Data Frame functionality
  • Menu item to create a new empty DataFrame.
  • Double click on row also takes values of function nodes in the corresponding case into consideration
  • New Moment Statistics Dialog
  • New Statistical Measures of Error Dialog
  • The implementation of the batch propagation functionality of the Data Frame has been improved. This includes the addition of a set of new measures that can be computed after the propagation of a case, i.e., variance and standard deviation of a numeric node
• Store size of instance node and relative position of interface nodes
• Feature Selection Analyzer now supports continuous nodes as target
• Tables are not created for chance nodes when leaving the Structure Learning Wizard
• macOS: The Hugin GUI application is now provided in two separate packages – with native support for M1 and Intel Macs, respectively.
• Other minor improvements.

Finally, work has been done to improve the performance of the HUGIN Graphical User Interface.

HUGIN Decision Engine v. 9.0

The HUGIN Decision Engine has been extended with the following features:

• A string representation can now be generated from a DataSet. These strings are suitable for, e.g., transmission over a network, and they can be parsed by the usual functions for parsing DataSet specifications
• A new variance operator is available as an expression in the Table Generator
• Hugin Web Service API now supports OpenJDK
• The HDE for macOS is now universal – with native support for the ARM64 as well as the x86_64 architecture