Handbook of Grammatical Evolution

Description

This handbook offers a comprehensive treatise on Grammatical Evolution (GE), a grammar-based Evolutionary Algorithm that employs a function to map binary strings into higher-level structures such as programs. GE's simplicity and modular nature make it a very flexible tool. Since its introduction almost twenty years ago, researchers have applied it to a vast range of problem domains, including financial modelling, parallel programming and genetics. Similarly, much work has been conducted to exploit and understand the nature of its mapping scheme, triggering additional research on everything from different grammars to alternative mappers to initialization. The book first introduces GE to the novice, providing a thorough description of GE along with historical key advances. Two sections follow, each composed of chapters from international leading researchers in the field. The first section concentrates on analysis of GE and its operation, giving valuable insight into set up and deployment. The second section consists of seven chapters describing radically different applications of GE. The contributions in this volume are beneficial to both novices and experts alike, as they detail the results and researcher experiences of applying GE to large scale and difficult problems. Topics include: • Grammar design • Bias in GE • Mapping in GE • Theory of disruption in GE · Structured GE · Geometric semantic GE · GE and semantics · Multi- and Many-core heterogeneous parallel GE · Comparing methods to creating constants in GE · Financial modelling with GE · Synthesis of parallel programs on multi-cores · Design, architecture and engineering with GE · Computational creativity and GE · GE in the prediction of glucose for diabetes · GE approaches to bioinformatics and system genomics · GE with coevolutionary algorithms in cybersecurity · Evolving behaviour trees with GE for platform games · Business analytics and GE for the prediction of patient recruitment in multicentre clinical trials Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction to 20 Years of Grammatical Evolution (Conor Ryan, Michael O’Neill, JJ Collins)....Pages 1-21 Understanding Grammatical Evolution: Grammar Design (Miguel Nicolau, Alexandros Agapitos)....Pages 23-53 On the Non-uniform Redundancy of Representations for Grammatical Evolution: The Influence of Grammars (Dirk Schweim, Ann Thorhauer, Franz Rothlauf)....Pages 55-78 Mapping in Grammatical Evolution (David Fagan, Eoin Murphy)....Pages 79-108 Theory of Disruption in GE (Erik Hemberg)....Pages 109-135 Structured Grammatical Evolution: A Dynamic Approach (Nuno Lourenço, Filipe Assunção, Francisco B. Pereira, Ernesto Costa, Penousal Machado)....Pages 137-161 Geometric Semantic Grammatical Evolution (Alberto Moraglio, James McDermott, Michael O’Neill)....Pages 163-188 GE and Semantics (Marina de la Cruz Echeandía, Younis R. SH. Elhaddad, Suzan Awinat, Alfonso Ortega)....Pages 189-218 Multi- and Many-Threaded Heterogeneous Parallel Grammatical Evolution (Amanda Sabatini Dufek, Douglas Adriano Augusto, Helio José Corrêa Barbosa, Pedro Leite da Silva Dias)....Pages 219-244 Comparing Methods to Creating Constants in Grammatical Evolution (R. Muhammad Atif Azad, Conor Ryan)....Pages 245-262 Grammatical Evolution in Finance and Economics: A Survey (Anthony Brabazon)....Pages 263-288 Synthesis of Parallel Programs on Multi-Cores (Gopinath Chennupati, R. Muhammad Atif Azad, Conor Ryan, Stephan Eidenbenz, Nandakishore Santhi)....Pages 289-315 Design, Architecture, and Engineering with Grammatical Evolution (Michael Fenton, Jonathan Byrne, Erik Hemberg)....Pages 317-339 Grammatical Evolution and Creativity (Róisín Loughran)....Pages 341-366 Identification of Models for Glucose Blood Values in Diabetics by Grammatical Evolution (J. Ignacio Hidalgo, J. Manuel Colmenar, J. Manuel Velasco, Gabriel Kronberger, Stephan M. Winkler, Oscar Garnica et al.)....Pages 367-393 Grammatical Evolution Strategies for Bioinformatics and Systems Genomics (Jason H. Moore, Moshe Sipper)....Pages 395-405 Grammatical Evolution with Coevolutionary Algorithms in Cyber Security (Erik Hemberg, Anthony Erb Lugo, Dennis Garcia, Una-May O’Reilly)....Pages 407-431 Evolving Behaviour Tree Structures Using Grammatical Evolution (Diego Perez-Liebana, Miguel Nicolau)....Pages 433-460 Business Analytics and Grammatical Evolution for the Prediction of Patient Recruitment in Multicentre Clinical Trials (Gilyana Borlikova, Louis Smith, Michael Phillips, Michael O’Neill)....Pages 461-486 Back Matter ....Pages 487-497