Evolution is applied to the development of parallel digital computer programs. The environment is a shared memory virtual computer containing a population of parallel computer programs. Although the digital computer is a very different environment than the ecology of the Earth, evolution is...

In this paper the relationship between evolution and entropy is described for a model of self-reproducing parallel computation. As was recently shown, [5], the performance of some types of parallel computation can be increased through a process analogous to evolution by natural selection. The...

In this paper we describe a number of experiments in which the ideas of multi-cellular evolution are applied to digital organisms in an artificial ecology. The individual organisms are parallel programs in a shared memory virtual computer where evolution by natural selection is shown to lead to...

In this paper we describe the application of massively parallel processing (MPP) to the problems involve sequences of numbers (for example, the daily closing values of the stock market, EEG patterns of brainwave activity, or, as discussed in this paper, the temporal values from set of equations...