1 Introduction.- 2 Fitness Landscapes.- 3 Program Component Schema Theories.- 4 Pessimistic GP Schema Theories.- 5 Exact GP Schema Theorems.- 6 Lessons from the GP Schema Theory.- 7 The Genetic Programming Search Space.- The GP Search Space: Theoretical Analysis.- 9 Example I: The Artificial Ant.- 10 Example II: The Max Problem.- 11 GP Convergence and Bloat.- 12 Conclusions.- A Genetic Programming Resources.- List of Special Symbols.
From the reviews: I came to this book from an engineering
perspective as a GP practitioner
interested in practical issues such as which cross-over operator
was most
applicable for my problem. Whilst this book did not offer any
clear-cut
answers, this is a reflection of the fact that there are no
clear-cut answers,
yet. What the book does succeed in doing is providing an
illuminating overview
of the body of work which will, in time, come to provide a
theoretical
foundation, and accurate prescriptions, for all of the ad-hoc
tweaks and
adjustments that we make in practise.
This was published in the British Computer Society journal "Expert
Update", 5(3) p46, 2002 by Steve Phelps. "Is genetic programming
(GP) better than random search? … Langdon and Poli take on the
ambitious task of giving a unified overview of a field still in its
infancy, and the result is an invaluable companion to the
literature. The book … proceeds to give a comprehensive and
illuminating treatment of the most important theorems. … throughout
the book the formal side of the theory is developed alongside
intuitive explanations and constructive analysis of actual
empirical data." (Steve Phelps, Expert Update, Vol. 5 (3), 2002)
"The book ‘Foundations of Genetics Programming’ summarizes
appearances and approaches in the GP section. … There are many
references for details in the text. Naturally, a large list of
references is printed in the appendix. In conclusion, the book
describes general principles of genetic programming. I recommend
this as the first book for those who are familiarized with the GA
and want to be in the know of the GP." (Vít Fábera, Neural Network
World, Vol. 12 (4), 2002)
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