Package org.uncommons.watchmaker.framework

This package provides a framework for evolutionary computation.

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Description

Interface Summary

CandidateFactory<T>	Creates new populations of candidates.
EvolutionaryOperator<T>	An evolutionary operator is a function that takes a population of candidates as an argument and returns a new population that is the result of applying a transformation to the original population.
EvolutionEngine<T>	Operations for classes that provide an evolution implementation.
EvolutionObserver<T>	Call-back interface so that programs can monitor the state of a long-running evolutionary algorithm.
FitnessEvaluator<T>	Calculates the fitness score of a given candidate of the appropriate type.
SelectionStrategy<T>	Strategy interface for "natural" selection.
TerminationCondition	Interface for implementing conditions used to terminate evolutionary algorithms.

Class Summary

AbstractEvolutionEngine<T>	Base class for EvolutionEngine implementations.
CachingFitnessEvaluator<T>	A wrapper that provides caching for FitnessEvaluator implementations.
ConcurrentEvolutionEngine<T>	Multi-threaded generational EvolutionEngine.
EvaluatedCandidate<T>	Immutable wrapper class for associating a candidate solution with its fitness score.
FitnessEvaluationWorker	This is the class that actually runs the fitness evaluation tasks created by a ConcurrentEvolutionEngine.
PopulationData<T>	Immutable data object containing statistics about the state of an evolved population and a reference to the fittest candidate solution in the population.
SequentialEvolutionEngine<T>	Single-threaded generational EvolutionEngine.

Package org.uncommons.watchmaker.framework Description

This package provides a framework for evolutionary computation. It defines generic interfaces for evolutionary operators, fitness functions and selection strategies. It also provides an all-purpose evolution engine.

Author:

Daniel Dyer