C.3 Result and Initialization Interface

Before the run of the kernel is stopped or aborted i.e. child processes are terminated and the parent process change its state to KS_STOPPED or KS_ERROR, the results of the computation are collected by the parent process. Results are saved into a parameter file. The name of this file is specified by the parameter ResultFilename). What information is included into the result parameter file is specified by parameter ResultType. The default value means that the whole global population and basic statistics are stored. This parameter file can also be used to initialize the global population in a new computation of the genetic algorithm (see parameter InitPopFromFile). In fact the format of this result parameter file defines the interface of the kernel used either for the start of computation from the specified point or to continue with the once stopped or aborted computation.

The paramfile has the following format:

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