abstract = "In recent years, program evolution algorithms based on
the estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) have
been proposed to improve search ability of genetic
programming (GP) and to overcome GP-hard problems. One
such method is the probabilistic prototype tree (PPT)
based algorithm. The PPT based method explores the
optimal tree structure by using the full tree whose
number of child nodes is maximum among possible trees.
This algorithm, however, suffers from problems arising
from function nodes having different number of child
nodes. These function nodes cause intron nodes, which
do not affect the fitness function. Moreover, the
function nodes having many child nodes increase the
search space and the number of samples necessary for
properly constructing the probabilistic model. In order
to solve this problem, we propose binary encoding for
PPT. Here, we convert each function node to a subtree
of binary nodes where the converted tree is correct in
grammar. Our method reduces ineffectual search space,
and the binary encoded tree is able to express the same
tree structures as the original method. The
effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated
through the use of two computational experiments.",
notes = "GECCO-2009 A joint meeting of the eighteenth
international conference on genetic algorithms
(ICGA-2009) and the fourteenth annual genetic
programming conference (GP-2009).