abstract = "The Internet is entering a new period of growth driven
by an increasing number of processors connected at the
edge of the Internet. Many of these processors are
sensors that continuously collect data. By 2020, it is
projected that there may be more than 20 billion (1000
million) devices connected to the Internet.
Collectively these devices are called the Internet of
Things (IoT) or the Internet of Everything (IoE). The
sheer volume of the data that will be gathered creates
new problems for an economy that is increasingly driven
by data analytics. It is likely that the devices at the
edge of the Internet will take part in the processing
of data for analytics by using distributed computing
among edge devices. Genetic Programming could play a
unique role in this environment because of its ability
not only to gather and analyse data, but to control the
evolution and use of other machine learning algorithms.
The confluence of unimaginable streams of real-world
data and emergent behaviours may give rise to the
question of whether the evolution of intelligence in
the natural world can be recreated using evolutionary
tools.",