OCaml Genetic Programming Framework

One of the greatest strengths of [[OCaml]] is in data structure manipulation, which is essentially what makes up a genetic programming framework. Thus OCaml is an excellent choice for such an endevor.

The goal of [[OGPF]] is to create a modular framework for building genetic programming systems in [[OCaml]]. It is additionally an experiment in modular framework design, making heavy use of [[Functors]]. OGPF seeks to be a clean, elegant, and efficient solution to the question "How do I do genetic programming in OCaml?"

If you are interested in using [[OGPF]] please mailto:awwaiid@thelackthereof.org email me and I'll help you get started. The more people who use the system and contribute components the easier everything will get.

See Also

• http://thelackthereof.org/projects/ocaml/ogpf/ The OGPF project directory
• http://thelackthereof.org/projects/ocaml/ogpf/snapshots/ Snapshots of the code
• OGPF Background
• do "darcs get http://thelackthereof.org/projects/ocaml/ogpf" to join development (see [[Darcs]])
• http://www.lri.fr/~marc/EO/eo/tutorial/html/eoBottomUp.html

Status

The framework itself is now functional, but to be useful to others I must still implement some common components. For example, I am now implementing Koza-lisp style genotype (just simple functions and terminals) in a couple different ways; I need to implement a Koza-style population management scheme, and using these reproduce some Koza-style problems (straight from the Genetic Programming books, probably). There are still some modularity issues.

Plans

Other things that this thing needs (long-term stuff):

• UI for managing runs
• Statistical analysis of runs
• Graphs of said statistics
• History / Geneology in runs (also for analysis)
• Preemption of runs

Documentation

[[OGPF Layout]]