perl-Algorithm-Evolve

An extensible and generic framework for executing

This module is intended to be a useful tool for quick and easy implementation of evolutionary algorithms. It aims to be flexible, yet simple. For this reason, it is not a comprehensive implementation of all possible evolutionary algorithm configurations. The flexibility of Perl allows the evolution of any type of object conceivable: a simple string or array, a deeper structure like a hash of arrays, or even something as complex as graph object from another CPAN module, etc. It's also worth mentioning that evolutionary algorithms are generally very CPU-intensive. There are a great deal of calls to 'rand()' and a lot of associated floating-point math. If you want a lightning-fast framework, then searching CPAN at all is probably a bad place to start. However, this doesn't mean that I've ignored efficiency. The fitness function is often the biggest bottleneck.