A symbolic evolutionary algorithm software platform.

Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have become a well-recognized population metaheuristic. The flexibility of EAs is the primary characteristic of its broad domain of practical applications. By contrast, its flexibility made it challenging to design formal languages to represent optimization models. Modeling Languages, in especial, are useful high-level languages for compact formulation and description of optimization problems. However, the lack of integration between EAs and modeling languages can delay the development of sophisticated and advanced generalized symbolic EAs, including gray box algorithms. Thus, this paper presents a Symbolic Evolutionary Algorithm Software Platform which proposes a modeling language: Procedural Modeling Language (PML). This software platform has a particular link to a symbolic compiler that allows the creation of sub-models in real-time. In the course of this paper, a study case is used to exemplify our proposed platform.