readme

genetic algorithm c code

NOTICE:  This README file was updated on December 27, 1998


This directory, /pub/src/messyGA/C, contains the messy GA (mGA) in C,
as documented in the technical report IlliGAL 91008, "mGA in C: A
Messy Genetic Algorithm in C", by Kalyanmoy Deb and David E. Goldberg,
September 1991.  

The source files are now available in a single compressed tar file:
messyGA-C.tar.Z

For a detailed discussion and explanation of the code, 
see the report, now available on this ftp server, in 

   /pub/papers/IlliGALs/91008.ps.Z 
 
This file is compressed postscript.  See the README file in the above
directory (/pub/papers/IlliGALs) for printing instructions.  Please obtain 
the report via ftp (or the world wide web (WWW) using the IlliGAL home page
http://GAL4.GE.UIUC.EDU/illigal.home.html), as it is too long to duplicate and 
distribute as hardcopy.  


Note: A bug in utility.c was recently fixed (Aug/98)

Note2: Some memory allocation bugs fixed (see the technical report IlliGAL
98015, "Eliminating memory leak in MGA-C program", by Alexander Kosorukoff,
December, 1998) Old files are those with .bak extension.