abstract = "A common problem in genetic programming search
algorithms is destructive crossover in which the
offspring of good parents generally has worse
performance than the parents. Designing constructive
crossover operators and integrating some local search
techniques into the breeding process have been
suggested as solutions. This paper reports on
experiments demonstrating that premature convergence
may happen more often when using these techniques in
combination with standard parent selection. It shows
that modifying the selection pressure in the parent
selection process is necessary to obtain a significant
performance improvement.",
notes = "GECCO-2007 A joint meeting of the sixteenth
international conference on genetic algorithms
(ICGA-2007) and the twelfth annual genetic programming
conference (GP-2007).