Genetic Programming

6 Dezembro 2016, 13:00 • João Marques Silva

This week's lecture was given by Dr. Sara Silva. The lecture provided an overview of Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming as the two main flavors of Evolutionary Algorithms. The lecture covered the foundations of these two topics, from the representation of the individuals and initialization of the population, to the evolutionary cycle of selecting the parents based on their fitness, breeding them with genetic operators and forming the new generation from the parent and offspring populations. A number of application examples were also illustrated, and a few demos were performed in run time.