Eliminating Introns in Ant Colony Programming

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Boryczka, Mariusz

Affiliations: Institute of Computer Science, University of Silesia, B�dzińska 39, 41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland. E-mail: boryczka@us.edu.pl

Abstract: Ant Colony Programming is a relatively new paradigm based on Genetic Programming and Ant Colony System. We discuss the problemof eliminating introns in Ant Colony Programming. The approach is tested on several approximation problems. The test results demonstrate that the proposed method simplifies significantly the achieved solutions and shortens their evaluation time.

Keywords: automatic programming, approximation problems, Ant Colony System, Ant Colony Programming, introns

Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 68, no. 1-2, pp. 1-19, 2005