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Open BEAGLE

Copyright (C) 1999-2004
by  Christian Gagne <cgagne@gel.ulaval.ca>
and Marc Parizeau <parizeau@gel.ulaval.ca>

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ABOUT
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Open BEAGLE is a versatile C++ evolutionary computation framework.
It provides a software environment to do any kind of EC, with a
fully-featured support for genetic programming and vector-based
evolutionary algorithms such genetic algorithms and evolution
strategy.



GETTING STARTED
===============

You can experiment with the different examples provided in folder
'examples'. The README and INSTALL files of these examples explain
how to build them, The usage of the example binaries is provided by
executing them with the command-line argument '-OBusage'.
Detailed help is also provided with argument '-OBhelp'.


DOCUMENTATIONS
==============

Consult the Open BEAGLE web page (http://www.gel.ulaval.ca/~beagle) 
to get all the necessary documents to use this framework.
