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Polymorphism and Genetic Programming

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Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2001)

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Types have been introduced to Genetic Programming (GP) by researchers with different motivation. We present the concept of types in GP and introduce a typed GP system, PolyGP, that supports polymorphism through the use of three different kinds of type variable. We demonstrate the usefulness of this kind of polymorphism in GP by evolving two polymorphic programs (nth and map) using the system. Based on the analysis of a series of experimental results, we conclude that this implementation of polymorphism is effective in assisting GP evolutionary search to generate these two programs. PolyGP may enhance the applicability of GP to a new class of problems that are difficult for other polymorphic GP systems to solve.

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    Tina Yu

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  1. School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham

    Julian Miller

  2. Computer Science Institute, University of Lausanne, Lausanne

    Marco Tomassini

  3. Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

    Pier Luca Lanzi

  4. Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Limerick, Limerick

    Conor Ryan

  5. Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

    Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi

  6. Department of Computer Science, University College London, London

    William B. Langdon

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Yu, T. (2001). Polymorphism and Genetic Programming. In: Miller, J., Tomassini, M., Lanzi, P.L., Ryan, C., Tettamanzi, A.G.B., Langdon, W.B. (eds) Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2038. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45355-5_17

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