%0 Conference Paper %1 Altenberg:1994EPIGP %A Altenberg, Lee %B Evolutionary Programming --- Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference %C San Diego, CA, USA %D 1994 %E Sebald, Anthony V. %E Fogel, Lawrence J. %I World Scientific Publishing %K algorithms, genetic programming %P 233--241 %T Emergent phenomena in genetic programming %U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/398393.html %X Evolutionary computation systems exhibit various emergent phenomena, primary of which is adaptation. In genetic programming, because of the indeterminate nature of the representation, the evolution of both recombination distributions and representations can emerge from the population dynamics. A review of ideas on these phenomena is presented, including theory on the evolution of evolvability through differential proliferation of subexpressions within programs. An analysis is given of a model of genetic programming dynamics that is supportive of the ``Soft Brood Selection'' conjecture, which was proposed as a means to counteract the emergence of highly conservative code, and instead favor highly evolvable code. Copyright 1996 Lee Altenberg %@ 981-02-1810-9

@inproceedings{Altenberg:1994EPIGP, abstract = {Evolutionary computation systems exhibit various emergent phenomena, primary of which is adaptation. In genetic programming, because of the indeterminate nature of the representation, the evolution of both recombination distributions and representations can emerge from the population dynamics. A review of ideas on these phenomena is presented, including theory on the evolution of evolvability through differential proliferation of subexpressions within programs. An analysis is given of a model of genetic programming dynamics that is supportive of the ``Soft Brood Selection'' conjecture, which was proposed as a means to counteract the emergence of highly conservative code, and instead favor highly evolvable code. Copyright 1996 Lee Altenberg}, added-at = {2008-06-19T17:35:00.000+0200}, address = {San Diego, CA, USA}, author = {Altenberg, Lee}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/20b8d92339b3bf6015cc64961d1e1f0d9/brazovayeye}, booktitle = {Evolutionary Programming --- Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference}, editor = {Sebald, Anthony V. and Fogel, Lawrence J.}, interhash = {b64c8dce0740614835751a2dcafbc9a0}, intrahash = {0b8d92339b3bf6015cc64961d1e1f0d9}, isbn = {981-02-1810-9}, keywords = {algorithms, genetic programming}, month = {24-26 February}, notes = {EP-94 http://www.wspc.com.sg/books/compsci/2401.html http://www.natural-selection.com/eps/EP94.html}, pages = {233--241}, publisher = {World Scientific Publishing}, timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:35:35.000+0200}, title = {Emergent phenomena in genetic programming}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/398393.html}, year = 1994 }