TOLKIEN:

TOLKIEN (TOoLKIt for gENetics-based applications) is a C++ class library, intended for those involved in GAs and CLASSIFIER SYSTEM research with a working knowledge of C++. It is designed to reduce effort in developing genetics- based applications by providing a collection of reusable objects. For portability, no compiler specific or class library specific features are used. The current version has been compiled successfully using Borland C++ Version 3.1 and GNU C++.

TOLKIEN contains a lot of useful extensions to the generic GENETIC ALGORITHM and classifier system architecture. Examples include: (i) CHROMOSOMEs of user-definable types; binary, character, integer and floating point; (ii) Gray code encoding and decoding; (iii) multi-point and uniform CROSSOVER; (iv) diploidy and dominance; (v) various SELECTION schemes such as tournament selection and linear ranking; (vi) linear FITNESS scaling and sigma truncation; (vii) the simplest one-taxon-one-action classifiers and the general two-taxa-one-action classifiers.

TOLKIEN is available from ENCORE (See Q15.3) in file: GA/src/TOLKIEN.tar.gz The documentation and two primers on how to build GA and CFS applications alone are available as: GA/docs/tolkien-doc.tar.gz

Author: Anthony Yiu-Cheung Tang <tang028@cs.cuhk.hk>, Department of Computer Science (Rm 913), The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Tel: 609-8403, 609-8404.