We present a novel evolutionary computing framework, Wallace, that achieves ease-of-use and genericity, via a domain-specific language, and simultaneously achieves efficiency via meta-programming, as well as supporting parallelism. Wallace also includes a novel multiple representation model of individual development, realised using meta-programming. We describe the Wallace framework, illustrating it with a number of example problems from the literature. We compare the performance of this framework to existing EC frameworks; early results show improvements in both conciseness and speed over popular alternatives. Finally, we discuss the future of EC frameworks, and the ongoing developments to the Wallace framework.
full paper : doi : 10.7551/978-0-262-33027-5-ch066
@inproceedings(SS-ECAL15-082, author = "Christopher Timperley and Susan Stepney", title = "Wallace: An efficient generic evolutionary framework", pages = "365-372", crossref = "ECAL15" ) @proceedings(ECAL15, title = "ECAL 2015, York, UK, July 2015", booktitle = "ECAL 2015, York, UK, July 2015", publisher = "MIT Press", year = 2015 )