abstract = "This paper presents a distributed approach to
parallelise Genetic Programming on the Internet. The
motivation for the approach is to harness the wealth of
computing resources available on the Internet to
provide the computing power required for solving
difficult problems. A distributed genetic programming
system termed DGP is developed in the Java programming
language to demonstrate the feasibility of distributing
genetic programming on the Internet. Unique features of
the DGP system include the use of Java Servlets to
handle the communication between DGP clients, the use
of a population pool to neutralise differences in
speeds of hosts, the interactive user interface and
graphical displays of the evolution process. The DGP
system has been implemented over the Internet and the
results are favourable. Experiments were conducted to
determine the performance of the DGP system. Results
showed that the DGP system has a much higher
probability of finding solutions as compared to the
distributed approaches taken in our previous studies
and the single population Genetic Programming.",
notes = "Code available at
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/W.Langdon/ftp/gp-code/DGP
Phyllis Chong Awarded a distinction in MSc in Advanced
Computer Science",