Genetic Programming as a Darwinian Invention Machine

Genetic programming is known to be capable of creating designs that satisfy prespecified high-level design requirements for analog electrical circuits and other complex structures. However, in the real world, it is often important that a design satisfy various non-technical requirements. One such requirement is that a design not possess the key characteristics of any previously known design. This paper shows that genetic programming can be used to generate novel solutions to a design problem so that genetic programming may be potentially used as an invention machine. This paper turns the clock back to the period just before the time (1917) when George Campbell of American Telephone and Telegraph invented and patented the design for an electrical circuit that is now known as the ladder filter. Genetic programming is used to reinvent the Campbell filter. The paper then turns the clock back to the period just before the time (1928) when Wilhelm Cauer invented and patented the elliptic fi...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: EUROGP
• Authors: John R. Koza, Forrest H. Bennett III, Oscar Stiffelman
• Keywords: Design, EUROGP 1999, Genetic Programming, Key Characteristics, Optimization