watchmaker

A genetic algorithm implementation in Rust.

Features

Developed as an investigation into capabilities and implementation characteristics
Written in the Rust programming language

Install Rust using rustup https://rustup.rs/
Add a reference to your Cargo.toml file from: https://crates.io/crates/watchmaker
Implement the Genetic interface for your search problem: rust pub trait Genetic<G> { fn initialize(&mut self) -> G; fn evaluate(&mut self, genome: &G) -> f64; fn crossover(&mut self, lhs: &G, rhs: &G) -> G; fn mutate(&mut self, original: &G) -> G; fn random(&mut self) -> &mut Random; }
Call the solver method: rust let result = solve( Box::new(MySearchProblem::new(make_random())), None, 0.00, 32, 100, 0.0, 1_000, Duration::from_secs(5), ); println!("{:?}", result);

See the examples folder.

Genetic Algorithm is a very well known technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_algorithm There are many alternatives for Rust available through cargo: https://crates.io/search?q=genetic%20algorithm

MIT permissive license. See LICENSE for full license details.