- author = "Nelishia Pillay",
- title = "An investigation into using genetic programming as a means of inducing solutions to novice procedural programming problems",
- booktitle = "{GECCO 2005}: Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation",
- year = "2005",
- editor = "Hans-Georg Beyer and Una-May O'Reilly and Dirk V. Arnold and Wolfgang Banzhaf and Christian Blum and Eric W. Bonabeau and Erick Cantu-Paz and Dipankar Dasgupta and Kalyanmoy Deb and James A. Foster and Edwin D. {de Jong} and Hod Lipson and Xavier Llora and Spiros Mancoridis and Martin Pelikan and Guenther R. Raidl and Terence Soule and Andy M. Tyrrell and Jean-Paul Watson and Eckart Zitzler",
- volume = "2",
- ISBN = "1-59593-010-8",
- pages = "1781--1782",
- address = "Washington DC, USA",
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URL = "
http://gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk/gecco2005/docs/p1781.pdf",
-
DOI = "
doi:10.1145/1068009.1068308",
- publisher = "ACM Press",
- publisher_address = "New York, NY, 10286-1405, USA",
- month = "25-29 " # jun,
- organisation = "ACM SIGEVO (formerly ISGEC)",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Poster, automatic programming, experimentation, local optima, theory",
- abstract = "This study forms part of a larger initiative aimed at creating a generic architecture for the development of intelligent programming tutors (IPTs) in an attempt to reduce the costs associated with building IPTs. Thus, instead of requiring the lecturer to provide solution algorithms to the programming problems that students will be tested on by the system, the generic architecture will automatically generate the solutions to these problems. This paper reports on the results of an investigation conducted to test the hypothesis that genetic programming (GP) can be used for this purpose. The paper proposes a genetic programming system for the induction of solutions to arithmetic, character and string manipulation, conditional, iterative, nested iteration, and recursive problems. The paper analyses the results of applying the proposed system to 45 randomly chosen novice procedural programming problems. Extensions made to the proposed system based on this analysis, namely, the implementation of the iterative structure-based algorithm (ISBA), are discussed.",
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notes = "GECCO-2005 A joint meeting of the fourteenth
international conference on genetic algorithms
(ICGA-2005) and the tenth annual genetic programming
conference (GP-2005).
ACM Order Number 910052",
