by GA Class (CS 495),     Fall 1998,  Instructor:  Jeffrey Horn 

• Software Development (GA++)

• Tried Publicly Distributed Code (sga-C)
• Decide to Develop Our Own in C++
• Team Approach
• "Black Box" Fitness Function
• Pipe Network Simulator (pipeBB)
• (interface)
• From Simpson, et. al. circa 1993
• BorlandTurbo Pascal
• Written by civil eng. graduate students
• 2000-3000 lines
• the BB code (http://aki.nmu.edu/Classes/GA/Code/Pipe )
• How to Interface GA++ to PipeBB?
• Rewrite in C++?
• Link to executable?
• Our Choice:  (KISS)
• Pascal -to-C converter
• Patch it up.
• Write a bit of code to read in chromosomes from file,
• output fitnesses to a file.