http://sourceforge.net/projects/opt4j/Project Reviews for Opt4JenWed, 18 Nov 2009 16:47:43 -0000http://sourceforge.net/projects/opt4j/reviews/Thumbs up: Opt4J is a very intuitive optimization framework based on Java. Thanks to the detailed Javadocs and a comprehensive tutorial, it is easy to understand the basics of the framework and use it for own optimization problems. The Library also offers a GUI to (a) configure and (b) visualize the optimization process. The programmers apply Google Guice to resolve dependencies at run-time. In my opinion, the latter is the only point where understanding Opt4J gets a little more tough. However, after some happy coding based on trial-and-error, one gets comfortable with this quite useful Guice-stuff. The project already contains several state-of-the-art optimizers, such as NSGA-II, SPEA2, Simulated Annealing etc. So, it is easy to run one problem with different Optimizers and look which one performs best. Personally, I am using Opt4J to perform design space exploration for application mapping in NoC-based systems. Though I am not an expert in EA-based optimization, it was quite easy for me to get first results. Consequently, a definitive „thumbs up“!anonymousWed, 18 Nov 2009 16:47:43 -0000http://sourceforge.net/projects/opt4j/reviews/guid-d4ae4b1701d0ba382cc4e0dfa05ab6c5