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A software platform for evolutionary computation with pluggable parallelism and quality assurance
This paper proposes the Java Evolutionary Computation Library
(JECoLi), an adaptable, flexible, extensible and reliable software
framework implementing metaheuristic optimization algorithms, using
the Java programming language. JECoLi aims to offer a solution suited
for the integration of Evolutionary Computation (EC)-based approaches
in larger applications, and for the rapid and efficient benchmarking of
EC algorithms in specific problems. Its main contributions are (i) the implementation
of pluggable parallelization modules, independent from the
EC algorithms, allowing the programs to adapt to the available hardware
resources in a transparent way, without changing the base code; (ii) a
flexible platform for software quality assurance that allows creating tests
for the implemented features and for user-defined extensions. The library
is freely available as an open-source project.FundaĆ§Ć£o para a CiĆŖncia e a Tecnologia (FCT) - PTDC/EIA-EIA/115176/2009, Programa COMPET