OAT: a quick start guide

The Optimization Algorithm Toolkit (OAT) is an open source software project written in Java that provides a suite of Computational Intelligence optimization problem domains with problem instances, classical and state-of-the-art algorithms, visualisation, graphs, and much more. This work provides a quick start guide for using the OAT (Section II. ) and developing for the OAT (Section III. ). This work considers OAT 1.4 as of December 2007 that may be accessed via the OAT Software webpage http://optalgtoolkit.sourceforge.net and the OAT Project webpage http://sourceforge.net/projects/optalgtoolkit. For information regarding the OAT software overview, vision, and future see Brownlee [2], and for information regarding development of new problem domains, problem instances and or algorithm instances, see Brownlee [1]. This section provides rudimentary instructions for getting started with using the OAT. [Introduction]