Genetic Programming Lab (GPLab) Tool Set Version 3.0

Abstract

This report describes the release 3.0 of the Genetic Programming Lab (GPLab) tool set. GPLab is software that is publicly available and free to use under general public license (GNU) software regulations. MATLAB is a programming environment standard among scientist and engineers. This current release of GPLab handles bloat control, adjustment of fitness complementary to size, keeping track of fitness and raw fitness, and using adjusted values along the selection process. This paper contains a complete description of the GPLab utility suite and contains many details about the components of the tool. This guide is designed to run a research environment easily without need to browse extensively through the much detailed manual. Finally, this document is only for quick reference used to assist in the understanding of GPLab using a demonstration and a short example problem. The example shows how to analyze generation, fitness, nodes, pareto, and node trees (computer program) in the MATLAB/GPLab environment.