The effect of plagues in genetic programming: A study of variable-size populations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2610, Issue , 2003, Pages 317-326

  Fernandez, Francisco ^a   Vanneschi, Leonardo ^b   Tomassini, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTING TIME; FITNESS LANDSCAPE; NEGATIVE EVENTS; VARIABLE SIZES;

GENETIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 35248840925     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36599-0_29     Document Type: Article

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