by Michiel Bliemer » Fri Apr 15, 2016 10:47 am
The algorithms in Ngene are designed to never stop (except for orthogonal designs, which are limited in number), since there are typically billions of combinations to be tried and Ngene "randomly" (in a smart way) selects designs to evaluate. It is up to the user to stop the algorithm and select the best design found. Ngene reports D-errors or other measures, so these measures stabilize you can stop. Alternatively, you can put into your algorithm that you stop the algorithm after X seconds or after X iterations.