The semantic map methodology has been applied mainly to the analysis of the multifunctionality of grammatical morphemes—they allow one to deal with this problem without having to decide between monosemic and polysemic analyses. Similar issues arise when dealing with derivational morphemes and word formation patterns so that this methodology can be extended to their analysis. As a case study, ca...

Several papers show that symbolic regression is suitable for data analysis and prediction in financial markets. Grammatical Evolution (GE), a grammar-based form of Genetic Programming (GP), has been successfully applied in solving various tasks including symbolic regression. However, often the computational effort to calculate the fitness of a solution in GP can limit the area of possible appli...

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a family of problems whereby a fleet of vehicles must service the commodity demands of a set of geographically scattered customers from one or more depots, subject to a number of constraints. Early hyper-heuristic research focussed on selecting and applying a low-level heuristic at a given stage of an optimisation process. Recent trends have led to a number ...

Many automatically-synthesized programs have, like their hand-made counterparts, numerical parameters that need to be set properly before they can show an acceptable performance. Hence, any approach to the automatic synthesis of programs needs the ability to tune numerical parameters efficiently. Grammatical Evolution (GE) is a promising grammar-based genetic programming technique that synthesi...

This article focuses on claims about the origin and evolution of language from the point of view of the formalist-functionalist debate in linguistics. In linguistics, an account of a grammatical phenomenon is considered "formal" if it accords center stage to the structural properties of that phenomenon, and "functional" if it appeals to the language user's communicative needs or to domain-gener...

Genr8 is a surface design tool for architects. It uses a grammarbased generative growth model that produces surfaces with an organic quality. Grammatical Evolution is used to help the designer search the universe of possible surfaces. We describe how we have extended Grammatical Evolution, in a general manner, in order to handle the grammar used by Genr8. 1 Genr8:The Evolution of Digital Surfac...

This article introduces a tool for data fitting that is based on genetic programming and especially on the grammatical evolution technique. The user needs to input a series of points and the accompanied dimensionality n and the tool will produce via the genetic programming paradigm a function f :Rn → R which is an approximate solution to the symbolic regression problem. The tool is entirely wri...

The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a family of problems whereby a fleet of vehicles must service the commodity demands of a set of geographically scattered customers from one or more depots, subject to a number of constraints. Early hyper-heuristic research focussed on selecting and applying a low-level heuristic at a given stage of an optimisation process. Recent trends have led to a number ...