Those sound like some fantastic enhancements. I'm looking forwards
specially the NEAT package :-)

On 2017年06月26日 00:50, Sean Luke wrote:
> BTW if you've been wondering why ECJ hasn't had any releases lately it's becasue we've been making significant non-backward-compatible changes in a separate repository. We will very soon be releasing a new version of ECJ we've had under wraps. It has:
>
> - Some non-backward-compatible rearchitecting
> - subpopulation and individual arrays are now ArrayLists
> - changes to how/when evaluations and generations are computed
> - custom parameters passed into breeding pipelines
> - parent statistics for children, more later (like birthdays)
> - some other stuff
> - Several new selection and breeding operators
> - A dedicated "single state" package to make hill-climbing
> and simualted annealing methods more efficient
> - A package for partition-based divide-and-conquer metaheuristics methods
> (DOVS)
> - A NEAT package
> - A testing facility (not included yet)
>
> This is our first step in ECJ's three-year enhancement program. We'll be ramping up big-time after GECCO.
>
> Sean
>


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