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Genetic Transposition in Tree-Adjoining Grammar Guided Genetic Programming: The Duplication Operator

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Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2005)

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We empirically investigate the use of dual duplication/truncation operators both as mutation operators and as generic local search operators, in combination with genetic search in a tree adjoining grammar guided genetic programming system (TAG3P). The results show that, on the problems tried, duplication/truncation works well as a mutation operator but not reliably when the complexity of the problem was scaled up. When using these dual operators as a generic local search operator, however, it helped TAG3P not only to solve the problems reliably but also cope well with scalability in problem complexity. Moreover, it managed to solve problems with very small population sizes.

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    Nguyen Xuan Hoai, Robert Ian Bob McKay, Daryl Essam & Hoang Tuan Hao

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    Maarten Keijzer

  2. Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università di Milano Crema,  

    Andrea Tettamanzi

  3. Université Louis Pasteur, LSIIT, FDBT, Pôle API, F-67400, Illkirch, France

    Pierre Collet

  4. National e-Science Centre, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Jano van Hemert

  5. Institut des Systèmes d’Information (ISI), Université de Lausanne, Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC),  

    Marco Tomassini

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Hoai, N.X., McKay, R.I.B., Essam, D., Hao, H.T. (2005). Genetic Transposition in Tree-Adjoining Grammar Guided Genetic Programming: The Duplication Operator. In: Keijzer, M., Tettamanzi, A., Collet, P., van Hemert, J., Tomassini, M. (eds) Genetic Programming. EuroGP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3447. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31989-4_10

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