Evolving Constructors for Infinitely Growing Sorting Networks and Medians

摘要

An approach is presented in which the object under design can grow continually and infinitely. First, a small object (that we call the embryo) has to be prepared to solve the trivial instance of a problem. Then the evolved program (the constructor) is applied on the embryo to create a larger object (solving a larger instance of the problem). Then the same constructor is used to create a new instance of the object from the created larger object and so on. Every new instance of the object is able to perform the function of all previous instances. As an example, constructors for growing sorting and median networks are evolved and analyzed.