- author = "David Jackson",
- title = "Mutation as a diversity enhancing mechanism in genetic programming",
- booktitle = "GECCO '11: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation",
- year = "2011",
- editor = "Natalio Krasnogor and Pier Luca Lanzi and Andries Engelbrecht and David Pelta and Carlos Gershenson and Giovanni Squillero and Alex Freitas and Marylyn Ritchie and Mike Preuss and Christian Gagne and Yew Soon Ong and Guenther Raidl and Marcus Gallager and Jose Lozano and Carlos Coello-Coello and Dario Landa Silva and Nikolaus Hansen and Silja Meyer-Nieberg and Jim Smith and Gus Eiben and Ester Bernado-Mansilla and Will Browne and Lee Spector and Tina Yu and Jeff Clune and Greg Hornby and Man-Leung Wong and Pierre Collet and Steve Gustafson and Jean-Paul Watson and Moshe Sipper and Simon Poulding and Gabriela Ochoa and Marc Schoenauer and Carsten Witt and Anne Auger",
- isbn13 = "978-1-4503-0557-0",
- pages = "1371--1378",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
- month = "12-16 " # jul,
- organisation = "SIGEVO",
- address = "Dublin, Ireland",
-
DOI = "
doi:10.1145/2001576.2001761",
- publisher = "ACM",
- publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
- abstract = "In various evolutionary computing algorithms, mutation operators are employed as a means of preserving diversity of populations. In genetic programming (GP), by contrast, mutation tends to be viewed as offering little benefit, to the extent that it is often not implemented in GP systems. We investigate the role of mutation in GP, and attempt to answer questions regarding its effectiveness as a means for enhancing diversity, and the consequent effects of any such diversity promotion on the solution finding performance of the algorithm. We find that mutation can be beneficial for GP, but subject to the proviso that it be tailored to enhance particular forms of diversity.",
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notes = "Santa Fe Ant, 600 steps, diversity of path. Mux,
4-even-parity, polynomial (diversity = 32 floats).
Also known as \cite{2001761} GECCO-2011 A joint meeting of the twentieth international conference on genetic algorithms (ICGA-2011) and the sixteenth annual genetic programming conference (GP-2011)",
