Tutorial Series on Java Framework for Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making. Tutorial 0: Introduction

This document introduces the Java framework for Evolutionary Computation and Decision Making (JECDM). It is a computational framework written in Java that primarily intends to facilitate research on preference-based evolutionary multi-objective optimization. The document overviews JECDM’s main characteristics and capabilities, discusses how it will be developed and maintained, provides installation guidelines, and briefly showcases its top-level components – modules. Overall, this document intends to help you – the reader – get acquainted with JECDM and decide whether this framework is for you. Website: https://jecdm.cs.put.poznan.pl