- author = "James A. Foster",
- title = "Taking ``biology'' just seriously enough: Commentary on ``On the Mapping of Genotype to Phenotype in Evolutionary Algorithms'' by {Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick, and James Maclaurin}",
- journal = "Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines",
- year = "2017",
- volume = "18",
- number = "3",
- pages = "395--398",
- month = sep,
- note = "Special Peer Commentary on Mapping of Genotype to Phenotype in Evolutionary Algorithms",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
- ISSN = "1389-2576",
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DOI = "
doi:10.1007/s10710-017-9296-x",
- size = "4 pages",
- abstract = "``On the Mapping of Genotype to Phenotype in Evolutionary Algorithms,'' by Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick, and James Maclaurin \cite{Whigham:2017:GPEM}, is a welcome reminder that evolutionary computation practitioners should be wary of taking their biological analogies too seriously. But more importantly, it is a reminder to practitioners to consider carefully their representations and operators, rather than blindly implementing a biological analogy without sufficient attention to the constraints of software engineering. ``It works in biology, so it should work in EC'' is poor, even lazy, software design. The primary contribution of this paper is exactly what a commentary should be: to (re)ignite discussions about how biological inspiration should inform EC practice",
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notes = "Introduction in \cite{Spector:2017:GPEM}
An author's reply to this comment is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10710-017-9289-9 \cite{Whigham:2017:GPEM2}.
This comment refers to the article available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10710-017-9288-x \cite{Whigham:2017:GPEM}.",
