Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

In an earlier post I had mentioned about a genetic-algorithm based linux kernel tuner. Jake Moilanen announces the release of a newer version of the library in Kernel Traffic:

There were numerous changes from the first release, but the major change in this version is the introduction of phenotypes. A phenotype is a set of genes the affect an observable property. In genetic-library terms, it is a set of genes that will affect a particular fitness measurement. Each phenotype will have a set of children that contain genes that affect a fitness measure.

Now multiple fitness routines can be ran for each genetic library user. Then depending on the results of a particular fitness measure, the specific genes that directly affect that fitness measure can be modified. This introduces a finer granularity that was missing in the first release of the genetic-library.

More details regarding the project and the downloads are available here.