Added `ci/auto-merge-branches.sh` to automatically merge branches. We will use this in the future to regularly merge the develop branch into the release branch. This automatic merge will then trigger the regression tests.

Introduced a new release script for platform-specific releases and moved it to an earlier stage in the release process.

Added a single-choice-in-sequence mutator. The mutator calls the configured children in order of appearance and stops when a child has modified the individual. 

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Removed generator-based implementation and switched to newer pipeline implementation for data generation tasks. ML still has to be switched.

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Introduced model-based data pipeline algorithm and switched to more configurable data validation. More to come.

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Export the serialised models of predictive and density to allow other plugins to use the information.

* Languages: 2025.4.0-SNAPSHOT
* Maven: 2025.4.0.rc1.SNAPSHOT

* Refactored parts of the statistics API and made it part of `de.evoal.optimisation.api.model`. The result was renamed to `Iteration`.
* Renamed component `individuals-per-generation` to `candidates-per-iteration`
* Renamed component `best-individual-per-generation` to `best-candidate-per-iteration`
* Adapted all examples to reflect the renaming
* Implemented a `StoppingCriterion` concept for optimisation algorithms.
* Added an initial `iteration-count` component that allows terminates the optimisation algorithm after a specified number of iterations.
* Adapted EA to use the stopping criterion.
* Adapted EA examples to use stopping criterion correctly. 
 
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Changelog: added

Lauren Paul authored 5 months ago and Bernhard Johannes Berger committed 5 months ago

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Closes #137

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Lauren Paul authored 5 months ago and Bernhard Johannes Berger committed 5 months ago

* Hill Climbing
* Simulated Annealing

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Issue: #131 #134

Lauren Paul authored 5 months ago and Bernhard Johannes Berger committed 5 months ago

There was an issue with the `Optimisation Distance Component` due to an attribute naming conflict. In this fix, we renamed the attribute `name` to `var` as `name` is a reserved name in our DSLs.

Changelog: bug
Issue: #135

We changed all version numbers from 2024.10.0 to 2025.4.0, as we are now working on the release candidate for the next official release.

Support integer literals in range expression of for loops.

## `generator`
Support integer literals in range expressions of for loops and allow variable usage in count part of write statement.  

The changes are downwards compatible and resolve #120 "Dynamic sample size in for-loops".

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Implements a new pipeline component that uses a surrogate model to predict data.

Solves #117

Adding a script for automatically deleting unused packages from the package registry. This script is triggered by a scheduled pipeline. 


Resolves !34 "Automatically remove packages for deleted branches"

This commit resolves issue #116 "ClassCastException when setting integer value for σ in noise-data component."

Reworked the handling of DSL files for developers. The `LanguageHelper` component was renamed to `AttributeHelper` and is more powerful than the old version. The function `lookup` automatically does default value handling (using default values of the attribute definition if the attribute is missing in the DSL) and automatic type casts. Thus, `int` values are now automatically casted into `double` values if the attribute definition states that the attribute is of type `real`.

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Lauren Paul authored 8 months ago and Bernhard Johannes Berger committed 8 months ago

1) `Requirements.requireProbability` checked the wrong upper bound
2) `constraint`, `correlated` and `ranged` statistics used wrong CDI names
3) The `correlated` statistics writer also logged the fitness values of other fitness calculation strategies. This was removed.

Closes #93

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