A scalable cellular implementation of parallel genetic programming

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-53

  Folino, Gianluigi ^a   Pizzuti, Clara ^a   Spezzano, Giandomenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cellular genetic programming model; Genetic programming (GP); Load balance; Parallel processing; Scalability

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING (GP);

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0037297960     PISSN: 1089778X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2002.806168     Document Type: Article

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