Developmental plasticity in linear genetic programming

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@InProceedings{mcphee:2009:gecco,
  author =       "Nicholas Freitag McPhee and Ellery Fussell Crane and 
                 Sara E. Lahr and Riccardo Poli",
  title =        "Developmental plasticity in linear genetic
                 programming",
  booktitle =    "GECCO '09: Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference
                 on Genetic and evolutionary computation",
  year =         "2009",
  editor =       "Guenther Raidl and Franz Rothlauf and 
                 Giovanni Squillero and Rolf Drechsler and Thomas Stuetzle and 
                 Mauro Birattari and Clare Bates Congdon and 
                 Martin Middendorf and Christian Blum and Carlos Cotta and 
                 Peter Bosman and Joern Grahl and Joshua Knowles and 
                 David Corne and Hans-Georg Beyer and Ken Stanley and 
                 Julian F. Miller and Jano {van Hemert} and 
                 Tom Lenaerts and Marc Ebner and Jaume Bacardit and 
                 Michael O'Neill and Massimiliano {Di Penta} and Benjamin Doerr and 
                 Thomas Jansen and Riccardo Poli and Enrique Alba",
  pages =        "1019--1026",
  address =      "Montreal",
  month =        "8-12 " # jul,
  organisation = "SigEvo",
  publisher =    "ACM",
  publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
  note =         "Nominated for best paper award in the GP track",
  keywords =     "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, EDA",
  isbn13 =       "978-1-60558-325-9",
  doi =          "doi:10.1145/1569901.1570039",
  size =         "8 pages",
  abstract =     "Biological organisms exhibit numerous types of
                 plasticity, where they respond both developmentally and
                 behaviorally to environmental factors. In some
                 organisms, for example, environmental conditions can
                 lead to the developmental expression of genes that
                 would otherwise remain dormant, leading to significant
                 phenotypic variation and allowing selection to act on
                 these otherwise {"}invisible{"} genes. In contrast to
                 biological plasticity, the vast majority of
                 evolutionary computation systems, including genetic
                 programming, are rigid and can only adapt to very
                 limited external changes. In this paper we extend the
                 N-gram GP system, a recently introduced estimation of
                 distribution algorithm for program evolution, using
                 Incremental Fitness-based Development (IFD), a novel
                 technique which allows for developmental plasticity in
                 the generation of linear-GP style programs. Tests with
                 a large set of problems show that the new system
                 outperforms the original N-gram GP system and is
                 competitive with standard GP. Analysis of the evolved
                 programs indicates that IFD allows for the generation
                 of more complex programs than standard N-gram GP, with
                 the generated programs often containing several
                 separate sequences of instructions that are reused
                 multiple times, often with variations.",
  notes =        "n-gram GP, 3 gram linear GP. Removed 2nd and first
                 order derived matrices by starting program with two
                 null operations. Program increases size by greedy
                 addition of blocks on instructions. Incremental blocks
                 need not be three instruction long. Symbolic
                 regression. Additional blocks added at random until
                 fitness is improved or time out.

                 One fixed (protected?) input register. ROUT different.
                 memory with memory. {"}Does not scale well to large
                 pools of constants{"} {"}IFD never hurts{"}

                 IFD solutions both {"}more complex{"} and {"}mode
                 modular{"}

                 GECCO-2009 A joint meeting of the eighteenth
                 international conference on genetic algorithms
                 (ICGA-2009) and the fourteenth annual genetic
                 programming conference (GP-2009).

                 ACM Order Number 910092. Also known as
                 \cite{DBLP:conf/gecco/McPheeCLP09}",
}

Genetic Programming entries for Nicholas Freitag McPhee Ellery Fussell Crane Sara E Lahr Riccardo Poli