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Article
Why We Do Not Evolve Software? Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms
Faculty Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-1-2018
Department
Computer Engineering and Computer Science
Disciplines
Abstract
In this article, we review the state-of-the-art results in evolutionary computation and observe that we do not evolve nontrivial software from scratch and with no human intervention. A number of possible explanations are considered, but we conclude that computational complexity of the problem prevents it from being solved as currently attempted. A detailed analysis of necessary and available computational resources is provided to support our findings.
DOI
10.1177/1176934318815906
ORCID
0000-0001-9637-1161
Citation Information
Yampolskiy RV. Why We Do Not Evolve Software? Analysis of Evolutionary Algorithms. Evolutionary Bioinformatics. January 2018. doi:10.1177/1176934318815906
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