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Hall, John M., Terence Soule, Does Genetic Programming Inherently Adopt Structured Design Techniques? Genetic Programming Theory and Practice, 2004.Abstract
Basic genetic programming (GP) techniques allow individuals to take advantage of some basic top-down design principles. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of these techniques, we define a design as an evolutionary frozen root node. We show that GP design converges quickly based primarily on the best individual in the initial random population. This leads to speculation of several mechanisms that could be used to allow basic GP techniques to better incorporate top-down design principles.
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@incollection{Hall2004:Design,
author = "John M. Hall and Terence Soule",
title = "Does Genetic Programming Inherently Adopt Structured Design Techniques?",
booktitle = "Genetic Programming Theory and Practice II",
year = "2004",
url = "http://localhost/research/evolutionary/design/design.html" }