Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VI

Terence Soule, Rick L. Riolo (auth.), Bill Worzel, Terence Soule, Rick Riolo (eds.)978-0-306-46762-2, 978-0-387-24386-3

Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VI was developed from the sixth workshop at the University of Michigan’s Center for the Study of Complex Systems to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information related to the rapidly advancing field of Genetic Programming (GP).

Contributions from the foremost international researchers and practitioners in the GP arena examine the similarities and differences between theoretical and empirical results on real-world problems. The text explores the synergy between theory and practice, producing a comprehensive view of the state of the art in GP application.

These contributions address several significant inter-dependent themes which emerged from this year’s workshop, including:

Making efficient and effective use of test data

Sustaining the long term evolvability of our GP systems

Exploiting discovered subsolutions for reuse

Increasing the role of a Domain Expert

In the course of investigating these themes, the chapters describe a variety of techniques in widespread use among practitioners who deal with industrial-scale, real-world problems, such as:

Pareto optimization, particularly as a means to limit solution complexity

Various types of age-layered populations or niching mechanisms

Data partitioning, a priori or adaptively, e.g., via co-evolution

Cluster computing or general purpose graphics processors for parallel computing

Ensemble/team solutions

This work covers applications of GP to a host of domains, including bioinformatics, symbolic regression for system modeling in various settings, circuit design, and financial modeling to support portfolio management.

This volume is a unique and indispensable tool for academics, researchers and industry professionals involved in GP, evolutionary computation, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages 1-14
Genetic Programming: Theory and Practice….Pages 1-18
APopulationBased Study ofEvolutionaryDynamics inGeneticProgramming….Pages 1-10
An Application of Information Theoretic Selection to Evolution of Models with Continuous-valued Inputs….Pages 1-14
Pareto Cooperative-Competitive Genetic Programming: A Classification Benchmarking Study….Pages 1-18
Genetic Programming with Historically Assessed Hardness….Pages 1-14
Crossover and Sampling Biases on Nearly Uniform Landscapes….Pages 1-15
Analysis of theEffects ofElitismonBloat inLinear and Tree-basedGenetic Programming….Pages 1-20
Automated Extraction of Expert Domain Knowledge from Genetic Programming Synthesis Results….Pages 1-14
Does Complexity Matter? Artificial Evolution, Computational Evolution and the Genetic Analysis of Epistasis in Common Human Diseases…..Pages 1-19
Exploiting Trustable Models via Pareto GP for Targeted Data Collection….Pages 1-18
Evolving Effective Incremental Solvers for SAT with a Hyper-Heuristic Framework Based on Genetic Programming….Pages 1-16
ConstrainedGenetic Programming toMinimizeOverfitting in StockSelection….Pages 1-16
Co-Evolving Trading Strategies toAnalyzeBoundedRationality inDouble Auction Markets…..Pages 1-19
Profiling Symbolic Regression-Classification….Pages 1-14
Accelerating Genetic Programming through Graphics Processing Units…..Pages 1-19
Genetic Programming for Incentive-Based Design within a Cultural Algorithms Framework…..Pages 1-19
Back Matter….Pages 1-3