Developmental Evaluation in Genetic Programming
- When?
- Monday 11 July 2011, 11:30 to 12:30
- Where?
- 39BB02
- Open to:
- Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Professor Bob McKay, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
We investigate interactions between evolution, development and lifelong layered learning in a combination we call Evolutionary Developmental Evaluation (EDE). It is based on a specific implementation, Developmental Tree-Adjoining Grammar Guided GP (DTAG3P).
The approach is consistent with the process of biological evolution and development in higher animals and plants, and is justifiable from the perspective of learning theory. In experiments, the combination is synergistic, out-performing algorithms using only some of these mechanisms. It is able to solve GP problems that lie well beyond the scaling capabilities of standard GP. The solutions it finds are simple, succinct, and highly structured.
Bob McKay received his BSc in Pure Mathematics from the Australian National University in 1971, and his PhD in the theory of computation from the University of Bristol, UK, in 1976.
He was a Research Scientist in computer typesetting at the (Australian) Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1976 to 1985, before joining the University of New South Wales as a Lecturer and subsequently Senior Lecturer, with research interests in artificial intelligence, evolutionary computation and ecological modelling.
In 2005, he was appointed as Associate Professor and subsequently full Professor at Seoul National University, Korea, where he is continuing these interests. In recent years, he has authored over 150 research papers in these and related topics.
