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C. FERREIRA In N. Nedjah, L. de M. Mourelle, A. Abraham, eds., Genetic Systems Programming: Theory and Experiences, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Vol. 13, pp. 21-56, Springer-Verlag, 2006. Automatically Defined Functions in Gene Expression Programming Genetic Algorithms: Historical Background   The way nature solves problems and creates complexity has inspired scientists to create artificial systems that learn how to solve a particular problem without human intervention. The first attempts were done in the 1950s by Friedberg (Friedberg 1958; Friedberg et al. 1959), but ever since highly sophisticated systems have been developed that apply Darwin’s ideas of natural evolution to the artificial world of computers and modeling. Of particular interest to this work are the Genetic Algorithms (GAs) and the Genetic Programming (GP) technique as they are the predecessors of Gene Expression Programming (GEP), an extremely versatile genotype/phenotype system. The way Automatically Defined Functions (ADFs) are implemented in GEP is another example of the great versatility of this algorithm and the versatility of GEP ADFs opens up new grounds for the creation of even more sophisticated artificial learning systems. So let’s start by introducing briefly these three techniques in order to appreciate the versatility of the genotype/phenotype system of Gene Expression Programming with and without ADFs. Home | Contents | Previous | Next