GAucsd:

GAucsd is a Genesis-based GA package incorporating numerous bug fixes and user interface improvements. Major additions include a wrapper that simplifies the writing of evaluation functions, a facility to distribute experiments over networks of machines, and Dynamic Parameter Encoding, a technique that improves GA PERFORMANCE in continuous SEARCH SPACEs by adaptively refining the genomic representation of real-valued parameters.

GAucsd was written in C for Unix systems, but the central GA engine is easily ported to other platforms. The entire package can be ported to systems where implementations of the Unix utilities "make", "awk" and "sh" are available.

GAucsd is available by FTP from ftp://cs.ucsd.edu/pub/GAucsd/GAucsd14.sh.Z or from ftp://ftp.aic.nrl.navy.mil/pub/galist/src/ga/GAucsd14.sh.Z To be added to a mailing list for bug reports, patches and updates, send "add GAucsd" to <listserv@cs.ucsd.edu>.

Cognitive Computer Science Research Group, CSE Department, UCSD 0114, La Jolla, CA 92093-0114, USA. Net: <GAucsd-request@cs.ucsd.edu>