Re: [boost] [GSOC] Thoughts about a metaheuristic library

Hi,

I'm thinking about proposing a library of genetic algorithms for this GSOC and wondered what the community thinks about it. The main idea is to provide a in extensible set of classes that a user can easily implement a GA without difficulty.

I'm also curious to see what the community thinks about this. I know there have been a couple of similar C++ projects over the years (GALib, Evolving Objects), but I don't think that they have been terribly successful. On the other hand the field of metaheuristic search is pretty active (academically, anyways). This is definitely not a summer-long task, but I think could make a nice Boost Library, in the long run. Let's see what others say. Andrew