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A New Wave: A Dynamic Approach to Genetic Programming

David Medernach, Jeannie Fitzgerald, R. Muhammad Atif Azad, Conor Ryan

Wave is a novel form of semantic genetic programming which operates by optimising the residual errors of a succession of short genetic programming runs, and then producing a cumulative solution....

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Evolution of Heterogeneous Cellular Automata in Fluctuating Environments

David Medernach, Simon Carrignon, René Doursat, Taras Kowaliw, Jeannie Fitzgerald, Conor Ryan

The importance of environmental fluctuations in the evolution of living organisms by natural selection has been widely noted by biologists and linked to many important characteristics of life such...

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Evolutionary Progress in Heterogeneous Cellular Automata (HetCA)

David Medernach, Jeannie Fitzgerald, Simon Carrignon, Conor Ryan

Although very controversial in the field of evolutionary biology, the notion of *evolutionary progress* is nevertheless generally accepted in the field of *Artificial Life*. In this article we...

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An Integrated Approach to Stage 1 Breast Cancer Detection

Jeannie M. Fitzgerald, Conor Ryan, David Medernach, Krzysztof Krawiec

We present an automated, end-to-end approach for Stage 1 breast cancer detection. The first phase of our proposed work-flow takes individual digital mammograms as input and outputs several smaller...

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Wave: A Genetic Programming Approach to Divide and Conquer

David Medernach, Jeannie Fitzgerald, R. Muhammad Atif Azad, Conor Ryan

This work introduces Wave, a divide and conquer approach to GP whereby a sequence of short, and dependent but potentially heterogeneous GP runs provides a collective solution; the sequence akins...

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Wave: Incremental Erosion of Residual Error

David Medernach, Jeannie Fitzgerald, R. Muhammad Atif Azad, Conor Ryan

Typically, Genetic Programming (GP) attempts to solve a problem by evolving solutions over a large, and usually pre-determined number of generations. However, overwhelming evidence shows that not...