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CAGE: A Tool for Parallel Genetic Programming Applications

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Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2001)

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A new parallel implementation of genetic programming based on the cellular model is presented and compared with the island model approach. Although the widespread belief that cellular model is not suitable for parallel genetic programming implementations, experimental results show a better convergence with respect to the island approach, a good scale-up behaviour and a nearly linear speed-up.

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  1. Univ. della Calabria, Via P. Bucci Cubo 41C, 87036, Rende, CS, Italy

    Gianluigi Folino, Clara Pizzuti & Giandomenico Spezzano

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham

    Julian Miller

  2. Computer Science Institute, University of Lausanne, Lausanne

    Marco Tomassini

  3. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

    Pier Luca Lanzi

  4. Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Limerick

    Conor Ryan

  5. Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

    Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi

  6. Department of Computer Science, University College London, London

    William B. Langdon

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Folino, G., Pizzuti, C., Spezzano, G. (2001). CAGE: A Tool for Parallel Genetic Programming Applications. In: Miller, J., Tomassini, M., Lanzi, P.L., Ryan, C., Tettamanzi, A.G.B., Langdon, W.B. (eds) Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45355-5_6

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