GPEIST:

The GENETIC PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENT in Smalltalk (GPEIST) provides a framework for the investigation of Genetic Programming within a ParcPlace VisualWorks 2.0 development system. GPEIST provides program, POPULATION, chart and report browsers and can be run on HP/Sun/PC (OS/2 and Windows) machines. It is possible to distribute the experiment across several workstations - with subpopulation exchange at intervals - in this release 4.0a. Experiments, populations and INDIVIDUAL genetic programs can be saved to disk for subsequent analysis and experimental statistical measures exchanged with spreadsheets. Postscript printing of charts, programs and animations is supported. An implementation of the Ant Trail problem is provided as an example of the use of the GPEIST environment.

GPEIST is available from ENCORE (see Q15.3) in file: EC/GP/src/GPEIST4.tar.gz

Contact: Tony White, Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Computer Research Lab - Gateway, 320 March Road, Suite 400, Kanata, Ontario, Canada, K2K 2E3. tel: (613) 765-4279 <arpw@bnr.ca>