About us : This site is maintained by the Biocomputing and Developmental Systems (BDS) Group in the Computer Science and Information Systems Department at the University of Limerick, Ireland.

Grammatical Evolution is an automatic programming system that is a form of Genetic Programming that uses grammars to evolve structures.

These structures can be in any form that can be specified using a grammar, including computer languages, graphs and neural networks.

Click here for a tutorial on Grammatical Evolution.

August 1, 2008:
Postdoctoral and PhD positions available at the BDS. Contact Conor Ryan for details.

July 15, 2008:
BDS group placed fourth in the "Humies", the annual competition for the best human-competitive results produced by Genetic Programming. Click here for more details.

Jul. 12:
Conor Ryan chairs GECCO, the largest annual Evolutionary Computation Conference.

Gramamtical Evolution is Open Source Software. Click here to download.