abstract = "Despite considerable progress in GP over the past 10
years, there are many outstanding challenges that need
to be addressed before it will be widely deployed for
developing useful software. We suggest a method for the
automatic creation of concurrent control software using
Linear Genetic Programming (LGP) and a divide and
conquer approach. The method involves decomposing the
whole problem into a multi-task solution with multiple
inputs and multiple outputs -- similar to the process
used to implement embedded control solutions. We
describe the necessary architecture of typical embedded
control systems and their relevance to this work, the
software evolution scheme used and lastly demonstrate
the technique for an embedded software problem, namely
a washing machine controller.",