%0 Conference Paper %1 PWHSmith:2000:ccgGP %A Smith, P. W. H. %B Advances in Soft Computing %C De Montfort University, Leicester, UK %D 2000 %E John, Robert %E Birkenhead, Ralph %I Physica-Verlag %K Bloat, Code Introns, Parsimony Pressure algorithms, genetic programming, %P 166--171 %T Controlling Code Growth in Genetic Programming %U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/475882.html %X It has been known since the early days of Genetic Programming that the evolutionary process tends to stagnate after a certain number of generations. Furthermore, during the evolutionary process, there is an inexorable and sometimes exponential increase in the average size of programs in a population. This has been called bloat. The major cause of this bloat appears to be caused by introns - sections of non-functional code. In this paper introns are categorised and different approaches to the control of code growth are described. %@ 3-7908-1257-9

@inproceedings{PWHSmith:2000:ccgGP, abstract = {It has been known since the early days of Genetic Programming that the evolutionary process tends to stagnate after a certain number of generations. Furthermore, during the evolutionary process, there is an inexorable and sometimes exponential increase in the average size of programs in a population. This has been called bloat. The major cause of this bloat appears to be caused by introns - sections of non-functional code. In this paper introns are categorised and different approaches to the control of code growth are described.}, added-at = {2008-06-19T17:46:40.000+0200}, address = {De Montfort University, Leicester, UK}, author = {Smith, P. W. H.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2649ba5d17048143229c1e2ac6ddfd42a/brazovayeye}, booktitle = {Advances in Soft Computing}, editor = {John, Robert and Birkenhead, Ralph}, interhash = {ec6ec8a465d546add85e0783bd5196f7}, intrahash = {649ba5d17048143229c1e2ac6ddfd42a}, isbn = {3-7908-1257-9}, keywords = {Bloat, Code Introns, Parsimony Pressure algorithms, genetic programming,}, notes = {Published in 2000}, pages = {166--171}, publisher = {Physica-Verlag}, size = {6 pages}, timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:51:52.000+0200}, title = {Controlling Code Growth in Genetic Programming}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/475882.html}, year = 2000 }