Preface: Please note that this documentation could be correlated to a former JGAP version. Therefor we recommend having a look at the examples provided with JGAP and then read this document in order to get an idea.

To use JGAP in an application, there are five basic things that you must do:

1. Plan your Chromosome.

2. Implement a “fitness function”.

3. Setup a Configuration object.

4. Create a population of potential solutions.

5. Evolve the population!

Through the course of this tutorial, we’ll build a simple example program that makes use of JGAP. The goal of our program will be to produce a user-specified amount of change in the fewest possible American coins (quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies).

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