Optimization Algorithm Toolkit (OAT)

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 1.3

Notes:
Fixes to the framework and user interface, a few new algorithms

Changes:
General Change History:
--------------------------------
1.3
* Added generic crowding replacement strategy, and modified RTS and simple crowding to make use of it
* Added a generic elitsm, used for GA's
* Removed elitism from Fitness Sharing - causes a bug, does not belong
* Made fitness sharing generic and modified FSGA to use it
* Cleaned up aspects of Differential Evolution implementation
* Cleaned up PSO implementation
* Added Evolutionary Programming (EP) - fr #1608132 
* Added support for fast evolutionary programming (FEP) - fr # 1608135 
* Minor bug fixes to utility classes
* Added a solution quality line graph
* Added a mutation and parallel mutation hill climber to binary problem
* Added generic measure utilities
* Modified character recognition to use average error as the system (solution) error
* Improved general problem configuration exceptions
* Added support for problem instance configuration in the GUI
* Added more effective problem info and problem configuration validation for all configurable problems
* Removed problem details panel from the GUI, uses a an about dialog instead.
* FuncOpt GUI changed to use a standardized plot
* Made the binary character recognition problem more robust, deleted clonalg, added parallel random hill climber