Heterogeneous cooperative coevolution: strategies of integration between GP and GA

  • Authors:
  • Leonardo Vanneschi;Giancarlo Mauri;Andrea Valsecchi;Stefano Cagnoni

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy;University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy;University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy;University of Parma, Parma, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Cooperative coevolution has proven to be a promising technique for solving complex combinatorial optimization problems. In this paper, we present four different strategies which involve cooperative coevolution of a genetic program and of a population of constants evolved by a genetic algorithm. The genetic program evolves expressions that solve a problem, while the genetic algorithm provides "good" values for the numeric terminal symbols used by those expressions. Experiments have been performed on three symbolic regression problems and on a "real-world" biomedical application. Results are encouraging and confirm that our coevolutionary algorithms can be used effectively in different domains.