On an Efficient Implementation of Tierra

author = "Russell K. Standish",

title = "On an Efficient Implementation of Tierra",

publisher = "Monash University, Faculty of Information Technology",

journal = "Complexity International",

year = "1997",

volume = "4",

month = jan,

keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",

ISSN = "1320-0682",

URL = "

http://journal-ci.csse.monash.edu.au/ci/vol04/eff-tierra/eff-tierra.html",

abstract = "In a project with which the author is involved, the run-time efficiency of Tierra has become of paramount importance. Whilst some optimisations can be applied to the Tierra code itself, the speedup is at most two to three times, with no benefits from vectorisation or parallelisation being realised due to the structure of the code. A new formulation of Tierra is proposed which gains the computational efficiency of a population model without sacrificing the advantages of an individual model. This new formulation can take advantage of parallelism when available. In some preliminary tests, the new code is up to three orders of magnitude faster than Tierra.",

notes = "Also known as RussellKStandish1997 miniTierra",