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C. FERREIRA 7th Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications, 2002

Function Finding and the Creation of Numerical Constants in Gene Expression Programming

Genetic Programming
 
As simple replicators, the ramified structures of GP are tied up in their own complexity: on the one hand, bigger, more complex structures are more difficult to handle and, on the other, the introduction of genetic variation can only be done at the tree level and, therefore, must be done carefully so that valid structures are created. A special kind of tree crossover is practically the only source of genetic variation used in GP for it allows the exchange of sub-trees and, therefore, always produces valid structures. Indeed, the implementation of high-performing operators, like the equivalent of natural point mutation, is unproductive as most mutations would result in syntactically invalid structures. Understandingly, the other genetic operators described by Koza (1992) – mutation and permutation – also operate at the tree level.

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