Interfacing GALib to Swarm

[J.J. Merelo Guervos]

>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Kewley <address@hidden> writes:

Hi,

    Rob> While the existing Breeder-1.0 library does provide this
    Rob> capability, it restricts the user to binary representations

It does not. You can implement different representations by
1. Implementing the protocols in a different way.
2. Subclassing the Chromosome
3. Writing a new one altogether, and using the Population class


    Rob> more versatility.  GALib from MIT, provides this versatility

    Rob>        see http://lancet.mit.edu/ga/

It does so through templates. Which means that, once again, you have
to write your own class, with the restrictions that templates impose
on it (a restriction very similar to the one imposed by protocols).

But, going back to the principles, there's not much that can be done
with non-binary chromosomes that can be done with other kind of
chromosomes.

You could also try http://kal-el.ugr.es/~jmerelo/GAJS.html (in
JavaScript, probably easier to port to ObjC), and
http://kal-el.ugr.es/GAGS (once again, only binary representation).

See ya!

                        JJ

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