GAME:

GAME (GA Manipulation Environment) aims to demonstrate GA applications and build a suitable programming ENVIRONMENT.

GAME is being developed as part of the PAPAGENA project of the European Community's Esprit III initiative.

GAME is available as an addendum to a book on PGAs (cf PAPAGENA, Q20.3). And from the project's FTP server ftp://bells.cs.ucl.ac.uk/papagena/ e.g. "papagena/game/docs" contains all the papers that have been produced over the course of the GAME project. The sources can also be obtained by FTP see papagena/game/version2.01/

GAME is now in version 2.01. This version is still able to run only sequential GAs, but version 3.0 will handle parallel GAs as well.

Unfortunately, The project yet only produced a Borland C++ 3.x version, so far. It is intended to distribute a version for UNIX/GNU C++ as well, when some compatibility issues concerning C++ "standards" have been resolved. Afterward a UNIX version will be released, but this will be only happen after the release of PC version 3.0.

For more information contact: Jose Luiz Ribeiro Filho, Department of Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. Net: <zeluiz@cs.ucl.ac.uk> (Unverified 8/94).