Incorporating expert knowledge in evolutionary search: A study of seeding methods

Proceedings of the 11th Annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO-2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1091-1097

  Schmidt, Michael D ^a   Lipson, Hod ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Prior knowledge; Symbolic regression

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE MODEL; APPROXIMATE SOLUTION; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; EVOLUTIONARY SEARCH; EXACT SOLUTION; EXPERT KNOWLEDGE; GENETIC PROGRAMS; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; PROBLEM COMPLEXITY; SEEDING METHOD; SYMBOLIC REGRESSION;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 72749105832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1569901.1570048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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