Make SimpleExperiment and SimpleCircleOfLife initializable via a properties file.
Make all Decoders conform to the new ContractObject interface.
Expand example.properties to illustrate how I intend the parameters to be used.  Tweak Parameters.java so that we can set parameters for elements in lists of objects by using their index in the list.  Expand the incomplete implementation of BitStringInitializer -- I need to stop and figure out where to hand the PRNG in the new layout.