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<p class=MsoPlainText>Hi<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>I’m interested in using Eva in a test harness
I’m developing. But before I do, could I check a few things with
you to see if Eva will support my requirements:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>1) I need to implement an Island model (which I’ve
never done before, so the easier the better), I see there is a brief mention of
it on the webpage, is there some documentation/example to look at?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>2) I need to run an external command, and then parse a
text file output by this command to evaluate my fitness. At the moment
I’m just using a threadpool of runtime.exec()s to do this, will Eva
support this (I suppose there should be no reason why it shouldn’t)? Or
could I use Eva client/server model and have the clients do each runtime.exec()s?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>If these aren’t possible, or this would be easier
using another Java Genetic Algorithm library, could you possibly suggest one also?
I am also looking at ECJ and JGAP (and wishing GAUL was available for Java), if
these help?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Thank you for any help and suggestions you can give.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Alex<o:p></o:p></p>
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