The Regulatory Network Computational Device

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@Article{Lopes:2012:GPEM,

• author = "Rui L. Lopes and Ernesto Costa",
• title = "The Regulatory Network Computational Device",
• journal = "Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines",
• year = "2012",
• volume = "13",
• number = "3",
• pages = "339--375",
• month = sep,
• note = "Special issue on selected papers from the 2011 European conference on genetic programming",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Genetic regulatory network, Evolution, Development, Neutrality",
• ISSN = "1389-2576",
• DOI = "doi:10.1007/s10710-012-9160-y",
• size = "37 pages",
• abstract = "Evolutionary Algorithms (EA) approach the genotype-phenotype relationship differently than does nature, and this discrepancy is a recurrent issue among researchers. Moreover, in spite of some performance improvements, it is a fact that biological knowledge has advanced faster than our ability to incorporate novel biological ideas into EAs. Recently, some researchers have started exploring computationally new comprehension of the multitude of the regulatory mechanisms that are fundamental in both processes of inheritance and of development in natural systems, by trying to include those mechanisms in the EAs. One of the first successful proposals was the Artificial Gene Regulatory Network (ARN) model, by Wolfgang Banzhaf. Soon after some variants of the ARN were tested. we describe one of those, the Regulatory Network Computational Device, demonstrating experimentally its capabilities. The efficacy and efficiency of this alternative is tested experimentally using typical benchmark problems for Genetic Programming (GP) systems. We devise a modified factorial problem to investigate the use of feedback connections and the scalability of the approach. In order to gain a better understanding about the reasons for the improved quality of the results, we undertake a preliminary study about the role of neutral mutations during the evolutionary process.",
• notes = "N-bit parity, Fibonacci, squares, modified factorial, ReNCoDe symbolic regression, artificial ant \cite{langdon:1998:antspace}, cart centering, neutrality analysis, ARN EuroGP 2011 \cite{Silva:2011:GP}",
• affiliation = "Center for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra, Polo II, Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal",

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Genetic Programming entries for Rui Lopes Ernesto Costa

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