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Doing GAs with GAGS

By: J.J. Merelo, G. Romero

GAGS is a C++ class library designed to make programming a Genetic Algorithm (GA) [Heitköeter and Beasley, 1996] easy, and at the same time, flexible enough to add new objects, which are treated in the same way as native ones. As many other class libraries, GAGS includes the following features: • Chromosomes, which are the basic building blocks of a genetic algorithms. Chromosomes are bit strings, and have a variable length. • Genetic operators, which are not part of the chromosome class, but are outside it (actually, they are halfway outside: being friends, they...