System Requirements: MAOS is a platform-independent software developed with JAVA version 1.5 or above, which is available for free from Sun Microsystems, Inc.

NOTE: Only the function getCurrentTime() in the class Global.util.TimeCostCounter uses JAVA 1.5 feature (for obtaining CPU Time instead of run time). You may remove the related line in this function in order to work with JAVA 1.4 or below.

License Information: MAOS is open source software distributed under the GNU General Public License 3.0. Please make sure that you have read, understood and agreed with the License before you download and use MAOS.

The Package

The full package of MAOS contains the readme file and three directories, i.e., a) the directory "source", which contains the source codes; b) the directory "binary", which contains the compiled files in the JAR format; and c) the directory "myprojects", which includes setting files and task files for the problems to be solved.

For more information on executing the binary files by using the project files, please refer to the document for user.

NOTE: The source codes cannot be directly complied. Please refer to the document for Building Project Setting for more information.

For simplicity, you might also download the separated versions for: Numerical Optimization Problem (NOP), Quadratic Knapsack Problem (QKP), Graph Coloring Problem (GCP), Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP), which can be directly compiled.