Title :
Evolutionary automata as foundation of evolutionary computation: Larry Fogel was right
Author :
Eberbach, Eugene ; Burgin, Mark
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng. & Sci., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Hartford, CT
Abstract :
In this paper we study expressiveness of evolutionary computation. To do so we introduce evolutionary automata and define their several subclasses. To our surprise, we got the result that evolving finite automata by finite automata leads outside its class, and allows to express for example pushdown automata or Turing machines. This explains partially why Larry Fogel restricted representation in Evolutionary Programming to finite state machines only. The power of evolution is enormous indeed!
Keywords :
Turing machines; evolutionary computation; finite state machines; Larry Fogel; Turing machines; evolutionary automata; evolutionary computation; finite automata; finite state machines; Automata; Computational modeling; Convergence; Evolutionary computation; Genetic programming; Quantum computing; Quantum mechanics; Robot programming; Scalability; Turing machines;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 2009. CEC '09. IEEE Congress on
Conference_Location :
Trondheim
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2958-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2959-2
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2009.4983207