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Positional effect of crossover and mutation in Grammatical Evolution
Tom Castle and C. G. Johnson
In Anna I. Esparcia-Alcazar, Aniko Ekart, Sara Silva, Stephen Dignum, and Sima Uyar, editors, Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2010, volume 6021 of LNCS, Istanbul, April 2010. EvoStar, Springer.Abstract
An often-mentioned issue with Grammatical Evolution is that a small change in the genotype, through mutation or crossover, may completely change the meaning of all of the following genes. This paper analyses the crossover and mutation operations in GE, in particular examining the constructive or destructive nature of these operations when occurring at points throughout a genotype. The results we present show some strong support for the idea that events occurring at the first positions of a genotype are indeed more destructive, but also indicate that they may be the most constructive crossover and mutation points too. We also demonstrate the sensitivity of this work to the precise definition of what is constructive/destructive.
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@inproceedings{3004,
author = {Tom Castle and C. G. Johnson},
title = {Positional Effect of Crossover and Mutation in {G}rammatical {E}volution},
month = {April},
year = {2010},
pages = {},
keywords = {Grammatical Evolution, locality, crossover, mutation, position, bias},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2010/3004},
publication_type = {inproceedings},
submission_id = {25065_1271095109},
ISBN = {978-3-642-12147-0},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2010},
editor = {Anna I. Esparcia-Alcazar and Aniko Ekart and Sara Silva and Stephen Dignum and Sima Uyar},
volume = {6021},
series = {LNCS},
address = {Istanbul},
organization = {EvoStar},
publisher = {Springer},
refereed = {Yes},
}