These 3 papers are on evolutionary design of electrical circuits using genetic programming and were presented recently at various conferences in Japan. . China Joint International Workshop on Information Systems. Ashikaga Institute of Technology. Pages 30 - 49. It would be desirable if computers could solve problems without the need for a human to write the detailed programmatic steps.
Genetic programming is such a technique.
Most practical electrical circuits contain modular substructures that are repeatedly used to create the overall circuit. Starting with a primordial ooze of thousands of randomly created computer programs, a population of programs is progressively evolved over many generations using the Darwinian principle of survival of the fittest, a sexual recombination operation, and occasional mutation. This second annual conference in 1997 reflects the rapid growth of this field in which over 600 technical papers have been published since 1992. Evolving Syntactically Constrained Parse Trees and several recent GP applications. Advanced Technologies Dept.