[cilib-devel] What's cooking - August 2009

[Gary P. <gpa...@gm...>]

Here are the list of topics currently cooking in CIlib. Commits prefixed with 
'-' are in 'pu' with commits prefixed with '+' have already been merged into 
'next'. Commits prefixed with '.' have not yet been included in a branch.

I've not had too much time to review some of the more complex patches and as a 
result they have not been accepted yet.

A rough timeline for releases:
* 0.7.1 (2009-08-14)

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[New topics]
* gp/immutable-matrix (2009-08-03 08:10:57) 1 commit
 . Immutable Matrix type

The immutable matrix is required to ensure that the data is consistent. The 
patch is an immutable matrix type.

* gp/fitness-methods (2009-07-31 09:50:11) 2 commits
 . Always increment evaluations problem.
 . Removed calculateFitness(boolean) from Entity.

A cleanup on the Entity API to remove some ambiguous methods. Also includes a 
correction to the interpretation of the number of fitness evaluations.

* gp/documentation
 + Update to cilib.net

* gp/evolutionary-programming (2009-07-30 09:34:33) 5 commits
 . Removed enum EntityType.Individual.
 . Strategy parameter initialization for EC.
 . sumOf() utility method.
 . EP: Remove deprecated method usage.
 . Initial EP algorithm.

Basic implementation of the EP. More additions to come. This is the basic CEP 
algorithm.

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[Graduated to "master"]

Nothing this week.

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[Stalled]
* mg/multi-response (2009-06-15 16:35:34) 2 commits
 . Additional response strategies
 . MultipleResponseStrategy to maintain a list of strategies.

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[On Hold]
* gp/nichepso (2009-06-18 11:39:39) 5 commits
 . Added debugging for NichePSO.
 . Niching algorithm fixes and unit tests.
 . Added niching test cases.
 . Added length() to Vector. Synonym for norm().
 . Updated NichePSO algorithm.

The NichePSO needs some more testing. A few behaviors of the particles does 
not make sense - sub-swarms are merged too aggressively on test problems.

* jd/dynamic (2009-07-09 19:26:16) 1 commit
 . Dynamic files added.

The dynamic patch needs some work. I'm slowly moving through it. The immutable 
matrix patch was created to fix some of the issues with this patch. More work 
is required though - I've added corrections where applicable so far.