The GAME system (Genetic Algorithms Manipulation Environment)

The use of the genetic algorithms (GAs) for solving complex optimisation problems has increased in the last couple of years. A number of research groups and companies in the US and Europe have produced software tool kits to help with the development of GA based applications. Although exhibiting intrinsic parallelism, on searching for the optimal solution, Genetic Algorithms´ computational models also present an enormous potential for the exploitation of parallelism at various levels. Most of the available programming tool kits, however, do not address this aspect. This paper presents an overview of the genetic algorithms manipulation environment (GAME) architecture; a parallel, object-oriented programming environment being developed at University College London, under the ESPRIT III PAPAGENA project.