An experimental study of some control parameters in parallel genetic programming

  • Authors:
  • Hongqing Cao;Jingxian Yu;Lishan Kang;R. I. Bob McKay

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, P. R. China;Department of Chemistry, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, P. R. China;State Key Laboratory of Software Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, P. R. China;School of Computer Science, University of New South Wales at ADFA, Northcott Drive, Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Using the evolutionary modeling of system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) as the test problem, this paper primarily investigates the influences of some important parallel control parameters within parallel genetic programming (GP), including the degree of connectivity between demes, the migration rate, the migration generation interval, and the migration policy, on the performance of the parallel evolutionary modeling algorithm (PEMA), which is measured from two perspectives: the solution quality and the parallel speedup. We compare the results with previous theoretical and experimental work in parallel genetic algorithms (GAs), and try to give some plausible analysis and explanations. The results may help to offer some useful design guidelines for researchers using parallel GP.