Experimental study of isolated multipopulation genetic programming

In this paper we present results obtained when comparing classic genetic programming (GP) with the isolated multipopulation version. Our first discovery was that sometimes, given a certain number of individuals, it is useful to distribute them among several populations even when no communication is allowed. This consequently lead to research concentrating on three main questions: firstly, how to distribute individuals according to the problem in hand; secondly, how many populations must be employed in proportion to the effort and fitness involved when solving a problem; and finally, how to use isolated multipopulation GP in the classification of problems