CROSSING-OVER GENETIC ALGORITHMS - THE SUGAL GENERALIZED GA

Sugal is a major new public-domain software package designed to suppor t experimentation with, and implementation of, Genetic Algorithms. Sug al includes a generalised Genetic Algorithm, which supports the major popular versions of the GA as special cases. Sugal also has integrated support for various datatypes, including real numbers, and features t o make hybridisation simple. This paper discusses the Sugal GA, showin g how recombining the features of the popular algorithms results in th e creation of a number of useful hybrid algorithms.