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From: moshes@gemini.math.tau.ac.il (Moshe Sipper)
Subject: Re: Evolving code?
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>It's been done, by Danny Hillis in his famous Red Queen experiments; code for
>sorting was evolved along with sorting problems. 
> I don't know if actual code was
>evolved, though. Besides, Koza evolved code for generating random numbers; it's
>in his TechRep and probably in his book.
>
>JJ Merelo                         | http://kal-el.ugr.es/jj.html
>Grupo Geneura ---- Univ. Granada  | http://kal-el.ugr.es/geneura.html

Hillis co-evolved sorting networks along with sorting problems as parasites.
Refs:

@Article{hillis90,
  author =       "W. D. Hillis",
  title =        "Co-Evolving Parasites Improve Simulated Evolution as
                  an Optimization Procedure",
  journal =      "Physica D",
  year =         "1990",
  volume =       "42",
  pages =        "228-234",
}

@InProceedings{hillis92,
  author =       "W. D. Hillis",
  title =        "Co-Evolving Parasites Improve Simulated Evolution as
                  an Optimization Procedure",
  editor =       "C. G. Langton and C. Taylor and J. D. Farmer and
                  S. Rasmussen",
  volume =       "{X}",
  series =       "{SFI} Studies in the Sciences of Complexity",
  pages =        "313-324",
  booktitle =    "Artificial Life {II}",


--Moshe Sipper.
moshes@math.tau.ac.il

-- 

Yours sincerely,

Moshe Sipper.
