%0 Conference Paper %1 juille:1996:cis %A Juille, Hugues %A Pollack, Jordan B %B Evolutionary Programming V: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming %C San Diego %D 1996 %E Fogel, Lawrence J. %E Angeline, Peter J. %E Baeck, Thomas %I MIT Press %K Coevolution Spirals, algorithms, genetic programming, %P 461--467 %T Co-evolving Intertwined Spirals %U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/201284.html %X We recently solved the two spirals problem, a difficult neural network benchmark classification problem, using the genetic programming primitives set up by koza:book . Instead of using absolute fitness, we use a relative fitness based on a competition for coverage of the data set. This is a form of co-evolutionary search because the fitness function changes with the population. Because niches are opened by proportionate reproduction, rather than crowded out, and because of the crossover operator, we find solutions which have a nice modular structure. Our experiments used our Massively Parallel Genetic Programming (MPGP) system running on a SIMD machine of 4096 processors, the Maspar MP-2. %@ 0-262-06190-2

@inproceedings{juille:1996:cis, abstract = {We recently solved the two spirals problem, a difficult neural network benchmark classification problem, using the genetic programming primitives set up by [ \cite{koza:book} ]. Instead of using absolute fitness, we use a relative fitness based on a competition for coverage of the data set. This is a form of co-evolutionary search because the fitness function changes with the population. Because niches are opened by proportionate reproduction, rather than crowded out, and because of the crossover operator, we find solutions which have a nice modular structure. Our experiments used our Massively Parallel Genetic Programming (MPGP) system running on a SIMD machine of 4096 processors, the Maspar MP-2.}, added-at = {2008-06-19T17:35:00.000+0200}, address = {San Diego}, author = {Juille, Hugues and Pollack, Jordan B}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ade97b46910bf470d412516da6ef9b43/brazovayeye}, booktitle = {Evolutionary Programming V: Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming}, editor = {Fogel, Lawrence J. and Angeline, Peter J. and Baeck, Thomas}, interhash = {4a0b599004cca91181d92055ae73594a}, intrahash = {ade97b46910bf470d412516da6ef9b43}, isbn = {0-262-06190-2}, keywords = {Coevolution Spirals, algorithms, genetic programming,}, month = {February 29-March 3}, notes = {EP-96 http://www.natural-selection.com/eps/EP96.html Massively Parallel Genetic Programming MPGP on SIMD machine of 4096 processors, the Maspar MP-2}, pages = {461--467}, publisher = {MIT Press}, publisher_address = {Cambridge, MA, USA}, timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:42:43.000+0200}, title = {Co-evolving Intertwined Spirals}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/201284.html}, year = 1996 }