L-systems are parallel generative grammars that can model branching structures. Taking a graphical object and attempting to derive an L-system describing it is a hard problem. Grammatical Evolution is an evolutionary technique aimed at creating grammars describing the legal structures an object can take. We use Grammatical Evolution to evolve L-systems, and investigate the effect of elitism, and the form of the underlying grammar.

Beaumont, Darren, “Grammatical Evolution of L-systems”, 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation

For my final year masters dissertation I conducted an in-depth investigation into the effects of grammatical evolution on L-systems grammars. The resulting 80 page dissertation was a key contributor to achieving my First Class masters, and went on to be published as an 8 page white paper in 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.

If you are curious what L-systems are, or want to learn more about grammatical evolution, you can read a full copy of the publication.

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Darren

Darren is an experienced product leader currently working in the Real Estate industry. He is passionate about using data, listening to people and focusing on user experience to identify and solve real problems and in doing so to make a lasting impact for our communities.

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