Evolvica

General Questions

What is Evolvica?
Evolvica is a complete toolkit that supports people in developing evolutionary algorithms. At the moment the central core library and a graphical user interface are ready for use. Support for parallelization and visualization is planned for the future.

What does the name Evolvica mean?
Hmm, nothing special. The name incorporates the word evolution, it is short, sounds nice and finally: the domain evolvica.org was free :-).

Are there any relationships to that Mathematica tool of the same name?
No, there aren't any. This tool is called Principia Evolvica and is an interactive tutorial to evolutionary algorithms in Mathematica. You can take a look at it here

I have a question, can I get support from you?
Yes, just send an email with your question to support@evolvica.org. Or, even better, post the question to the forum - there may be more people with the same question.

I think I have found a bug, what do I do?
Make a short description of how to reproduce the bug and send an email to bugs@evolvica.org. In addition please attach the .log file to the email which can be found in the .metadata directory (inside the directory where Evolvica resides).

Is is possible to contribute?
Yes it is! If you created an operator or a whole algorithm which should make it into Evolvica send in your source code!

Is Evolvica free software?
No. It costs exactly one postcard (and a stamp of course). So if you find it useful you should take a pen and write a nice postcard to:

Andreas Rummler
PO Box 10 09 43
07709 Jena
Germany

If you do not find it useful write an email and tell me why ...

Java Related Questions

What's required to run Evolvica?
All you need is a properly installed Java Development Kit.

What Java version is required?
Evolvica requires a Java Development Kit 1.4.0 or later. Algorithms may or may not run with older JDKs, you have to try it for yourself.

Where can I find the sources of Evolvica?
In the plugins directory you can find some subdirectories starting with org.evolvica. The sources can be found in the core- and in the ui-subdirectories.

Evolvica creates its workspace directory below the installation directory. Can I change that?
Yes, start Evolvica from the command line with the parameter -data <newWorkspaceDirectory>.