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Introduction
PMDGP (Poor Man's Distributed Genetic Programming) is an object oriented framework
for solving genetic programming problems written in C++. Once a GP problem has been
implemented using the PMDGP framework, the often computational demanding evaluation
of individuals (genetic programs) can be easily distributed over the network among
standard PC's using a GUI client/server approach utilizing the idle time of
client computers.
The genome interpreter (evaluator) uses the memory and runtime efficient prefix encoding to
store the programs. Both the standard program building blocks, the nodes, and
the evaluator have a user definable result type as C++ template parameter. Many
standard nodes that can work with the predefined scalar vector or binary result types are
available in the system.
The genetic algorithm delegates most of the work to component objects like
initializer, evaluator, scaler, selector, crossover etc. The objects that are
used in a run of the PMDGP are instantiated and configured as specified in a
configuration file. This enables you to work and expiriment with very different
problem configurations without having to recompile the system.
PMDGP consists of:
- libdgp - The framework core. It contains the genome interpreter,
genetic algorithm classes and base classes to implement user defined Evaluator,
Nodes and Result type.
- DGPServer
- A GUI Server for distributing the evaluation of a GP problem
implemented using libdgp to several DGPClients over a network. The server and
client use wxWindows to implement GUI, network
threading etc. in a cross platform way.
- DGPClient - A GUI Client that uses the idle time of the computer to
evaluate the genetic programs.
- DGP - A Command Line Interface to run a local version of a GP problem
implemented using libdgp.
- Sample problems and configuration files - Several sample problems are
available to play with:
Ant trail, Symbolic regression, Lawn mower, Parity, RoyalTree and an 1D Edge detector.
PMDGP currently compiles and runs on windows and linux machines.
News
PMDGP source now available from CVS peul - 2001-08-08 12:02
Download
The PMDGP source code and windows executables are separately available for
download on the PMDGP sourceforge
project page. A list
of all packages released by this project can be found
here.
The masters thesis describing pmdgp can also be downloaded there. The latest
version of the sourcecode is always available from CVS.
CVS
The latest version of the pmdgp code is available from CVS. Instructions on
how to setup CVS can be found
here.
You will also find a simple webinterface for browsing the CVS online there.
Links
PMDGP's SourceForge project page
wxWindows homepage
Boost.org website
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