Autoconstructive Evolution: Push, PushGP, and Pushpop
Lee C. Spector · 2001
This paper is a preliminary report on autoconstructive evolution, a framework for evolutionary computation in which the machinery of reproduction and diversification (and thereby the machinery of evolution) evolves within the individuals of an evolving population of problem solvers. Autoconstructive evolution is illustrated with Pushpop, an evolving population of programs expressed in the Push programming language. The Push programming language can also be used in a more traditional genetic programming framework and may have unique benefits when so employed; the PushGP system, which uses traditional genetic programming techniques to evolve Push programs, is also described.