%0 Conference Paper %1 soule:1998:rbias %A Soule, Terence %A Foster, James A. %B 1998 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation %C Anchorage, Alaska, USA %D 1998 %I IEEE Press %K Code algorithms, bias, genetic growth, length parsimony, programming, removal representations variable %P 781--186 %T Removal Bias: a New Cause of Code Growth in Tree Based Evolutionary Programming %U http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/313655.html %X This paper presents a new cause of code growth, termed removal bias. We show that growth due to removal bias can be expected to occur whenever operations which remove and replace a variable sized section of code, e.g. crossover or subtree mutation, are used in an evolutionary paradigm. Two forms of non-destructive crossover are used to examine the causes of code growth. Results support the protective value of inviable code and removal bias as two distinct causes of code growth. Both causes of code growth are shown to exist in at least two different problems.

@inproceedings{soule:1998:rbias, abstract = {This paper presents a new cause of code growth, termed removal bias. We show that growth due to removal bias can be expected to occur whenever operations which remove and replace a variable sized section of code, e.g. crossover or subtree mutation, are used in an evolutionary paradigm. Two forms of non-destructive crossover are used to examine the causes of code growth. Results support the protective value of inviable code and removal bias as two distinct causes of code growth. Both causes of code growth are shown to exist in at least two different problems.}, added-at = {2008-06-19T17:35:00.000+0200}, address = {Anchorage, Alaska, USA}, author = {Soule, Terence and Foster, James A.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/259a38dd39493834c510d6f688cf71764/brazovayeye}, booktitle = {1998 IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation}, file = {c136.pdf}, interhash = {b340e72ff1d39a665a822f8d2a4a94e3}, intrahash = {59a38dd39493834c510d6f688cf71764}, keywords = {Code algorithms, bias, genetic growth, length parsimony, programming, removal representations variable}, month = {5-9 May}, notes = {ICEC-98 Held In Conjunction With WCCI-98 --- 1998 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence}, organisation = {IEEE}, pages = {781--186}, publisher = {IEEE Press}, size = {6 pages}, timestamp = {2008-06-19T17:52:00.000+0200}, title = {Removal Bias: a New Cause of Code Growth in Tree Based Evolutionary Programming}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/313655.html}, year = 1998 }