Testing Discipulus Linear Genetic Programming Software on Real-world Environmental Engineering Challenges

Genetic Programming (GP) is a machine learning technique that writes computer programs, automatically. Although individual researchers used GP techniques in the 1960’s and 1970’s, GP emerged as a distinct discipline in 1992. Since that time, over one thousand academic studies have been published in the field and, in 1998, commercial GP software – Discipulus – reached the market. Discipulus is an extremely fast, linear GP system written for the Wintel platform. It runs about two orders of magnitude faster than firstgeneration GP software. Discipulus generates C/C++ and assembly language programs that map process inputs to outputs.