abstract = "Object Oriented Genetic Programming (OOGP) is applied
to the task of evolving general recursive sorting
algorithms. We studied the effects of language
primitives and fitness functions on the success of the
evolutionary process. For language primitives, these
were the methods of a simple list processing package.
Five different fitness functions based on sequence
disorder were evaluated. The time complexity of the
successfully evolved algorithms was measured
experimentally in terms of the number of method
invocations made, and for the best evolved individuals
this was best approximated as O(n log(n)). This is the
first time that sorting algorithms of this complexity
have been evolved.",
notes = "WCCI 2006 - A joint meeting of the IEEE, the EPS, and
the IEE.
Best in session. IEEE Xplore gives pages as
2677--2684",