Evolutionary modeling based on overlap reuse

Reuse (or reusability) plays an important role in the software engineering. The software reuse technique, considered as an effective approach to improve the productivity, can reduce the cost in software design and development. This paper introduces the concept of reuse in the software into the chromosome and presents an evolutionary modeling algorithm based on the overlapped reuse. Furthermore, a new gene reading & computing machine is constructed for calculating the fitness of chromosome which has the characteristic of reusability. As a new kind of modeling algorithm, this is a new research way for evolutionary modeling.