Genetic Algorithm
                                software package (by Thomas Baeck, (c) 1992)

Please, 
however, bet aware that the program comes with NO WARRANTIES and
may still contain bugs. 

GENEsYs:
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GENEsYs is a GENESIS-based GA implementation which includes extensions
and new features for experimental purposes, such as selection schemes
like linear ranking, Boltzmann, (mu, lambda)-selection, and general
extinctive selection variants, crossover operators like n-point and
uniform crossover as well as discrete and intermediate recombination.
Self-adaptation of mutation rates is also possible.

A set of objective functions is provided, including De Jong's functions,
complicated continuous functions, a TSP-problem, binary functions, and a
fractal function.  There are also additional data-monitoring facilities
such as recording average, variance and skew of object variables and mu-
tation rates, or creating bitmap-dumps of the population.

GENEsYs 1.0 is available via ftp from lumpi.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
(129.217.36.140).  Log on with user name "ftp" and give your full e-mail
address as password.  The file GENEsYs-1.0.tar.Z in directory pub/GA/src
contains the complete software distribution; the documentation alone
is available as GENEsYs-1.0-doc.tar.Z in the same location.


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    Thomas Baeck	          Computer Science Department, LS XI
				  University of Dortmund
    Phone : +49-231-755-2569	  D-44221 Dortmund 
    Fax   : +49-231-755-2450	  Germany

    e-mail: baeck@home.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
    	    baeck@ls11.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
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