Instructions for “Installing” and Using My Genetic Algorithm for Power Unit Maintenance Scheduling

Setup

1. You need to obtain the zip file from my www page – look under “review” page – forSGAzip.zip. Right click to download – save somewhere
2. Double click on the saved zip file to unzip (put contents in a folder created for the purpose. For future reference, lets say you call this folder SGA)
3. For convenience, move or copy the txt files to “My Documents”

Starting up in IDE

1. Start up Forte (from the Start Button)
2. Select the “Editing” tab in upper left
3. Right Click on “Filesystems”; choose “Mount”; then choose “Local Directory”. Then find the folder (SGA) in which you unzipped everything to.
4. In the left panel, click on the dot to the left of “sgapowerunit” to expand – showing files
5. Right Click on “Main” and choose “Build”

Running Program

1. Right Click on “”Main” and choose “Execute”
2. Find file with data (e.g. PowerUnitMaint.txt; PowerUnitMaintHard.txt) (The program always starts the dialog box at “My Documents” which is why it is convenient to put the files in there)
3. Specify file that the program should put results in (if you specify an existing file, previous contents will be overwritten)
4. Specify the Population Size
5. Specify the Number of Generations
6. Specify the Mutation Percent