Hi Matthew,
I'm currently at work right now and I don't have time to completely look over your e-mail.  However, the Santa Fe ant demo is included in ECJ under ec.app.ant.  Please checkout that and koza.params under ec.gp.koza.

> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:08:01 -0500
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> Subject: Grammatical Evolution Santa Fe Experiment Problem
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>
> Hello,
> It is great that ecj now has a grammatical evolution implementation. But I
> am having trouble replicating the results of a basic GE experiment. I am
> wondering if anyone else has had this problem, can see any mistakes in what
> I have done, or know of a reason for this.
> I refer to the results of this paper, for the santa fe ant trail:
> O'Neill M., Ryan C. Grammatical Evolution. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary
> Computation, Vol. 5 No.4, August 2001.
>
> In this paper, over 100 runs, GE finds the correct code in approximately 90
> of the runs. However, my results are consistently around the 25 mark.
>
> I would normally put any discrepancies down to small differences in
> implementation between O'Neill's code and ecj, but the results are so
> dramatically different that it is probably not due to this.
>
> My parameters are copied below. You will see I have tried to match the
> grammar that they use, and use the same genetic operators in the pipeline.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> #Grammar file myant.grammar
> <start> ::= <code>
> <code> ::= <line> | (progn2 <code> <line>)
> <line> ::= (if-food-ahead <line> <line>) | <op>
> <op> ::= (left) | (right) | (move)
>
> #Initialisation
> pop.subpop.0.size = 500
> breed.elite.0 = 50
> pop.subpop.0.species.genome-size = uniform
> pop.subpop.0.species.min-initial-size = 5
> pop.subpop.0.species.max-initial-size = 20
>
> #GA pipelines
> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe = ec.vector.breed.GeneDuplicationPipeline
> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.likelihood = 0.01
> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0 = ec.vector.breed.VectorMutationPipeline
> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0.likelihood = 1
> pop.subpop.0.species.mutation-prob = 0.01
> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0.source.0 =
> ec.vector.breed.ListCrossoverPipeline
> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0.source.0.prob = 1
> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0.source.0.likelihood = 0.9
> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0.source.0.source.0 =
> ec.select.TournamentSelection
> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0.source.0.source.1 = same
> pop.subpop.0.species.pipe.source.0.source.0.toss = false
>
> #function set
> gp.fs.0.size = 5
> gp.fs.0.func.0 = ec.app.ant.func.Left
> gp.fs.0.func.0.nc = nc0
> gp.fs.0.func.1 = ec.app.ant.func.Right
> gp.fs.0.func.1.nc = nc0
> gp.fs.0.func.2 = ec.app.ant.func.Move
> gp.fs.0.func.2.nc = nc0
> gp.fs.0.func.3 = ec.app.ant.func.IfFoodAhead
> gp.fs.0.func.3.nc = nc2
> gp.fs.0.func.4 = ec.app.ant.func.Progn2
> gp.fs.0.func.4.nc = ncboth