NAME

       PGASetStoppingRuleType - specify a stopping criterion.

DESCRIPTION

       If  called  more  than  once  the  different  stopping  criterion  are  ORed together.  Valid choices are
       PGA_STOP_MAXITER,  PGA_STOP_TOOSIMILAR,  or  PGA_STOP_NOCHANGE  to  specify  iteration   limit   reached,
       population  too  similar,  or  no  change  in  the  best  solution found in a given number of iterations,
       respectively.  The default is to stop when a  maximum  iteration  limit  is  reached  (by  default,  1000
       iterations).

INPUT PARAMETERS

       ctx    - context variable
       stoprule
              - symbolic constant to specify stopping rule

OUTPUT PARAMETERS

       none

SYNOPSIS

       #include "pgapack.h"
       void  PGASetStoppingRuleType(ctx, stoprule)
       PGAContext *ctx
       int stoprule

LOCATION

       stop.c

EXAMPLE

       Example:
       PGAContext *ctx;
       :
       PGASetStoppingRuleType(ctx, PGA_STOP_TOOSIMILAR);

                                                    05/01/95                           PGASetStoppingRuleType(8)