The Watchmaker Framework for Evolutionary Computation

There is an interesting Evolutionary Computation project which uses Java to implement a general platform-independent software to run Evolutionary Algorithms. See here.

The authors have two nice demos of their software:

1. The Traveling Salesman Problem.

2. Interactive Evolution of Biomorphs.

You can also find some tutorials upon optimization and Evolutionary Computation:

1. Tutorial Part 1 - A Brief Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms.

2. Tutorial Part 2 - Implementing Evolutionary Algorithms in Java with the Watchmaker Framework.

3. Performance Tuning & Optimisation (incomplete).