Evolving java objects using a grammar-based approach
Yandu Oppacher, Franz Oppacher, Dwight Deugo · 2009
Grammar-Based Object Oriented Genetic Programming leverages the Object Oriented programming paradigm in evolutionary computation. The difference between this approach and others is that the resulting solution is a syntactically correct and executable Java program. Candidate solutions are created and tested against a JUnit test suite. Evolved solutions incorporate useful Object Oriented patterns. To create and compile the Java classes a new framework for Grammar-Based Genetic Programming has been created. The framework is entirely written in Java. By externally compiling and then loading the classes into the framework for testing true object-oriented encapsulation is achieved. For the first time state and behaviour can be passed around as an object.