Grammatical Swarm

Michael O’Neill¹ and Anthony Brabazon²

¹Biocomputing and Developmental Systems Group, University of Limerick, Ireland
Michael.ONeill@ul.ie

²University College Dublin, Ireland
Anthony.Brabazon@ucd.ie

Abstract. This proof of concept study examines the possibility of specifying the construction of programs using a Particle Swarm algorithm, and represents a new form of automatic programming based on Social Learning, Social Programming or Swarm Programming. Each individual particle represents choices of program construction rules, where these rules are specified using a Backus-Naur Form grammar. The results demonstrate that it is possible to generate programs using the Grammatical Swarm technique.

LNCS 3102, p. 163 ff.

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