Also, some interesting research along these lines by Stephanie Forrest of the University of New Mexico:
http://genprog.adaptive.cs.unm.edu/ -- Max On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Murat Girgin <gir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Cunningham's "Extreme Genetic Programming" might be of interest: > http://www.neocoretechs.com/. > > Murat > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:33 AM, John Nilsson <j...@milsson.nu> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Casey Ransberger >> <casey.obrie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I wonder: what if all we did was write the tests? What if we threw some >> kind of genetic algorithm or neural network at the task of making the tests >> pass? >> >> I've been having a similar thought for a while now, but its not really >> the test as such, it is more the declarative nature of the test. How >> would the programming model look like if the system was derived from >> formalized requirements (tests)? How would the system be derived >> (genetic algorithm)? >> >> >> My thinking is more focused on the programming model and how to divide >> the artifact development between the correct people than actual >> algorithms for auomatic derivation. F.ex. architectures could be >> expressed as libraries, a constraint solver or genetic algorithm can >> be fed the high level requirements and mine the architecture libraries >> to generate a basic architecture. The generated architecture concepts >> can then be referenced in new requirements to derive functions. >> >> Now the trick is, i believe, in stratifying the requirements when >> formalizing them. Low-level requirements is often dependent on >> solutions picked from high-level requirements. I.e. the "color of the >> navigation menu should be red" is not at the same level as "the system >> presents a webshop." Still the dependency between the requirements is >> interesting to focus on. Would one revisit the choice of "webshop" >> maybe there is no "navigation menu" that can "be red". >> >> I anticipate that the problem in developming and maintaining such a >> system is to keep referential integrity between requirements. >> Navigating Java in a modern IDE f.ex. makes it easy to find all >> references of an identifier which is vital when assessing the imact of >> a change. In a similar style high level requirements that affect lower >> level requirements must be easy to trace. >> >> >> To achieve such a system I have been thinking of implementing a meta >> language system in which languages can be declared, mixed and anlyzed >> together. By declaring transformations between langaugas the system >> would allow derived concepts in one language to depend on declared >> expressions in another language and assert referential integrity. >> >> >> BR, >> John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> fonc mailing list >> fonc@vpri.org >> http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >> > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc > >
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