Grammatical Evolution: Evolutionary Automatic Programming in an Arbitrary Language

O'Neill, Michael; Ryan, Conor

Grammatical Evolution: Evolutionary Automatic Programming in an Arbitrary Language provides the first comprehensive introduction to Grammatical Evolution, a novel approach to Genetic Programming that adopts principles from molecular biology in a simple and useful manner, coupled with the use of grammars to specify legal structures in a search. Grammatical Evolution's rich modularity gives a unique flexibility, making it possible to use alternative search strategies - whether evolutionary, deterministic or some other approach - and to even radically change its behavior by merely changing the grammar supplied. This approach to Genetic Programming represents a powerful new weapon in the Machine Learning toolkit that can be applied to a diverse set of problem domains.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2012-10-30

Format: Paperback

ISBN-10: 9781461350811

ISBN-13: 9781461350811

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-0447-4

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 144