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- From: koza@CS.Stanford.EDU (John Koza)
- Subject: Evolving CAs using Genetic Programming
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- Cellular automata rules can be evolved via genetic programming. Examples of
- 1-D and 2-R evolutions are contained in my new book on genetic programming.
- Information about book follows...
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- BOOK AND VIDEOTAPE ON GENETIC PROGRAMMING
-
- A new book and a one-hour videotape (in VHS NTSC, PAL, and SECAM
- formats) on genetic programming are now available from the MIT
- Press.
-
- NEW BOOK...
-
- GENETIC PROGRAMMING: ON THE PROGRAMMING OF COMPUTERS BY
- MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION
-
- by John R. Koza, Stanford University
-
- The recently developed genetic programming paradigm provides a
- way to genetically breed a computer program to solve a wide variety
- of problems. Genetic programming starts with a population of
- randomly created computer programs and iteratively applies the
- Darwinian reproduction operation and the genetic crossover (sexual
- recombination) operation in order to breed better individual
- programs. The book describes and illustrates genetic programming
- with 81 examples from various fields.
-
- 840 pages. 270 Illustrations. ISBN 0-262-11170-5.
-
- Contents...
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- 1 Introduction and Overview
- 2 Pervasiveness of the Problem of Program Induction
- 3 Introduction to Genetic Algorithms
- 4 The Representation Problem for Genetic Algorithms
- 5 Overview of Genetic Programming
- 6 Detailed Description of Genetic Programming
- 7 Four Introductory Examples of Genetic Programming
- 8 Amount of Processing Required to Solve a Problem
- 9 Nonrandomness of Genetic Programming
- 10 Symbolic Regression - Error-Driven Evolution
- 11 Control - Cost-Driven Evolution
- 12 Evolution of Emergent Behavior
- 13 Evolution of Subsumption
- 14 Entropy-Driven Evolution
- 15 Evolution of Strategy
- 16 Co-Evolution
- 17 Evolution of Classification
- 18 Iteration, Recursion, and Setting
- 19 Evolution of Constrained Syntactic Structures
- 20 Evolution of Building Blocks
- 21 Evolution of Hierarchies of Building Blocks
- 22 Parallelization of Genetic Programming
- 23 Ruggedness of Genetic Programming
- 24 Extraneous Variables and Functions
- 25 Operational Issues
- 26 Review of Genetic Programming
- 27 Comparison with Other Paradigms
- 28 Spontaneous Emergence of Self-Replicating and Self-Improving
- Computer Programs
- 29 Conclusions
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- Appendices contain simple software in Common LISP for
- implementing experiments in genetic programming.
-
- ONE-HOUR VIDEOTAPE...
-
- GENETIC PROGRAMMING: THE MOVIE
-
- by John R. Koza and James P. Rice, Stanford University
-
- The one-hour videotape (in VHS NTSC, PAL, and SECAM formats)
- provides a general introduction to genetic programming and a
- visualization of actual computer runs for 22 of the problems
- discussed in the book GENETIC PROGRAMMING: ON THE PROGRAMMING
- OF COMPUTER BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION. The problems
- include symbolic regression, the intertwined spirals, the artificial
- ant, the truck backer upper, broom balancing, wall following, box
- moving, the discrete pursuer-evader game, the differential pursuer-
- evader game, inverse kinematics for controlling a robot arm,
- emergent collecting behavior, emergent central place foraging, the
- integer randomizer, the one-dimensional cellular automaton
- randomizer, the two-dimensional cellular automaton randomizer,
- task prioritization (Pac Man), programmatic image compression,
- solving numeric equations for a numeric root, optimization of lizard
- foraging, Boolean function learning for the 11-multiplexer, co-
- evolution of game-playing strategies, and hierarchical automatic
- function definition as applied to learning the Boolean even-11-
- parity function.
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