Take It EASEA

Evolutionary algorithms are not straightforward to implement and the lack of any specialised language forces users to reinvent the wheel every time they want to write a new program Over the last years evolutionary libraries have appeared trying to reduce the amount of work involved in writing such algorithms from scratch by o ering standard engines strategies and tools Unfortunately most of these libraries are quite complex to use and imply a deep knowledge of object programming and C To further reduce the amount of work needed to implement a new algorithm without however throwing down the drain all the man years already spent in the development of such libraries we have designed EASEA acronym for EAsy Speci cation of Evolutionary Algorithms a new high level language dedicated to the speci cation of evolutionary algorithms EASEA compiles ez les into C object les containing function calls to a chosen existing library The resulting C le is in turn compiled and linked with the library to produce an executable le implementing the evolutionary algorithm speci ed in the original ez le EASEA v is available on the web at http www rocq inria fr EVO Lab