The Simple Interface for Global Optimization Algorithms allows the

• Specification of arbitrary search/optimization problems
• Solving of these problems
• Specification and implementation of arbitrary global optimization algorithms

Global optimization algorithms include randomized algorithms like evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms and particle swarm optimization, as well as heuristics like A*-search. We provide an e-book which elaborates on this topic spanning from the simple mathematical background over different global optimization techniques to their concrete implementation in Sigoa. This e-book can be downloaded from http://www.it-weise.de/projects/book.pdf.

We also provide a reference implementation in Java for these algorithms which complys the specifications. The latest relase of this implementation is available here.

You can browse the complete source code of the project in the source section, including the related projects SFC and DGPF.