A collection of heuristic optimization algorithms
A collection of heuristic optimization algorithms.
The algorithms are implemented mostly as described by Michalewicz and Fogel in “How to Solve It: Modern Heuristics”
An Optimizer uses a specified optimization strategy (see OptimizationStrategyType) to optimize an Optimizee.
Optimization is nearly the same thing as search. In bb4-puzzles, bb4-games, and bb4-simulations implementations, various types of optimization strategies from this library are used to search for solutions.
Type ‘gradlew build’ at the root (or ./gradlew if running in Cygwin). This is mainly a library project, but there are several interesting test cases that can be viewed visually.
If you want to open the source in Intellij, then first run ‘gradlew idea’.
There is a simple visualization of a trivial optimization problem that can be viewed by running ‘gradlew run’.
When there is a new release, versioned artifacts will be published by Barry Becker to Sonatype.
All source (unless otherwise specified in individual file) is provided under the MIT License