Description

Finding the optimal parameter setting (i.e. the optimal population
size, the optimal mutation probability, the optimal evolutionary
model etc) for an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) is a difficult task. Instead
of evolving only the parameters of the algorithm we will evolve
an entire EA capable of solving a particular problem. For this purpose
the Multi Expression Programming (MEP) technique is used. Each MEP
chromosome will encode multiple EAs. An nongenerational EA for function
optimization is evolved in this paper. Numerical experiments show
the effectiveness of this approach.