Running GEVA out-of-the-box
  1. Have a working java environment installed on your machine. GEVA was developed for Java 1.5 and up
  2. Download the latest version of GEVA.
  3. Unzip the distribution and open the GEVA-v2.0 directory.
  4. To run out of the box do either one of
    • Double-click the GEVA_GUI.jar, OR
    • java -jar GEVA_GUI.jar

Running out-of-the-box GEVA uses the HelloWorld example problem. In this problem the goal is to match all the characters in a target character string ("geva"). The fitness is minimized.