GAGS:

GAGS (Genetic Algorithms from Granada, Spain) is a library and companion programs written and designed to take the heat out of designing a GENETIC ALGORITHM. It features a class library for genetic algorithm programming, but, from the user point of view, is a genetic algorithm application generator. Just write the function you want to optimize, and GAGS surrounds it with enough code to have a genetic algorithm up and running, compiles it, and runs it. GAGS Is written in C++, so that it can be compiled in any platform running this GNU utility. It has been tested on various machines. Documentation is available.

GAGS includes:

• Steady-state, roulette-wheel, tournament and elitist SELECTION.

• FITNESS evaluation using training files.

• Graphics output through gnuplot.

• Uniform and 2-point CROSSOVER, and bit-flip and gene-transposition MUTATION.

• Variable length CHROMOSOMEs and related operators.

The application generator gags.pl is written in perl, so this language must also be installed before GAGS. Available from: http://kal-el.ugr.es/GAGS The programmer's manual is in the file gagsprogs.ps.gz. GAGS is also available from ENCORE (see Q15.3) in file EC/GA/src/gags-0.92.tar.gz (there may be a more recent version) with documentation in EC/GA/docs/gagsprog.ps.gz

Maintained by J.J. Merelo, Grupo Geneura, Univ. Granada <jmerelo@kal-el.ugr.es>