Everything about Grammatical evolution

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Grammatical evolutionA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Design of a cryptographically secure pseudo random number generator with grammatical evolutionInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Contact languagesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Grammatical evolutionCited 689 times
5. Go sideways: Genetic representationA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Chromosome (evolutionary algorithm)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Grammatical evolution

  M. O'Neill, C. Ryan · 2001 · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 689 citations

• The Evolution of Grammatical Categories

  Jerzy Kuryłowicz · 1965 · Diogenes · 156 citations

• Grammatical Evolution Hyper-Heuristic for Combinatorial Optimization Problems

  Nasser R. Sabar, Masri Ayob, Graham Kendall · 2013 · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 110 citations

• Neural network construction and training using grammatical evolution

  Ioannis Tsoulos, Dimitris Gavrilis, Euripidis Glavas · 2008 · Neurocomputing · 85 citations

• Grammatical Evolution of Local Search Heuristics

  Edmund K. Burke, Matthew R. Hyde, Graham Kendall · 2012 · IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation · 83 citations

• Crossover in Grammatical Evolution

  Michael O'Neill, Conor Ryan, Maarten Keijzer · 2003 · Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines · 73 citations

• Unveiling the properties of structured grammatical evolution

  Nuno Lourenço, Francisco B. Pereira, Ernesto Costa · 2016 · Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines · 61 citations

• Selecting and constructing features using grammatical evolution

  Dimitris Gavrilis, Ioannis G. Tsoulos, Evangelos Dermatas · 2008 · Pattern Recognition Letters · 46 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Design of a cryptographically secure pseudo random number generator with grammatical evolution

  Conor Ryan, Meghana Kshirsagar, Gauri Vaidya · 2022 · Scientific Reports · 48 citations

• GRAPE: Grammatical Algorithms in Python for Evolution

  Allan de Lima, Samuel Carvalho, Douglas Mota Dias · 2022 · Signals · 19 citations

• Areal pressure in grammatical evolution

  Chundra Cathcart, Gerd Carling, Filip Larsson · 2022 · Diachronica · 18 citations

• Modular Grammatical Evolution for the Generation of Artificial Neural Networks

  Khabat Soltanian, Ali Ebnenasir, Mohsen Afsharchi · 2022 · Evolutionary Computation · 17 citations

• QFC: A Parallel Software Tool for Feature Construction, Based on Grammatical Evolution

  Ioannis G. Tsoulos · 2022 · Algorithms · 13 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Contact languagesUmberto Ansaldo · 2009
• Genetic ProgrammingKrzysztof Krawiec · 2013
• Software Language EngineeringKrzysztof Czarnecki · 2013
• Complex processes in new languagesEnoch Oladé Aboh, Norval Smith · 2009
• Grammatical evolutionO'Neill, Michael, Michael O'Neill · 2003
• Foundations in Grammatical Evolution for Dynamic EnvironmentsIan Dempsey, Michael O'Neill · 2009
• Variation and universals in biolinguisticsLyle Jenkins · 2004
• Course in General LinguisticsFerdinand de Saussure, Charles Bally · 1974

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