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Studying the Influence of Communication Topology and Migration on Distributed Genetic Programming

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Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2001)

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In this paper we present a systematic experimental study of some of the parameters influencing parallel and distributed genetic programming (PADGP) by using three benchmark problems. We first present results on the system’s communication topology and then we study the parameters governing individual migration between subpopulations: the number of individuals sent and the frequency of exchange. Our results suggest that fitness evolution is more sensitive to the migration factor than the communication topology.

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  1. Computer Science Institute, University of Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Marco Tomassini & Leonardo Vanneschi

  2. Dpto. Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

    Francisco Fernández

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham

    Julian Miller

  2. Computer Science Institute, University of Lausanne, Lausanne

    Marco Tomassini

  3. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

    Pier Luca Lanzi

  4. Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Limerick

    Conor Ryan

  5. Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

    Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi

  6. Department of Computer Science, University College London, London

    William B. Langdon

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Fernández, F., Tomassini, M., Vanneschi, L. (2001). Studying the Influence of Communication Topology and Migration on Distributed Genetic Programming. In: Miller, J., Tomassini, M., Lanzi, P.L., Ryan, C., Tettamanzi, A.G.B., Langdon, W.B. (eds) Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45355-5_5

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