abstract = "We present a study of dynamic environments with
genetic programming to ascertain if a dynamic
environment can speed up evolution when compared to an
equivalent static environment. We present an analysis
of the types of dynamic variation which can occur with
a variable-length representation such as adopted in
genetic programming identifying modular varying,
structural varying and incremental varying goals. An
empirical investigation comparing these three types of
varying goals on dynamic symbolic regression benchmarks
reveals an advantage for goals which vary in terms of
increasing structural complexity. This provides
evidence to support the added difficulty variable
length representations incur due to their requirement
to search structural and parametric space concurrently,
and how directing search through varying structural
goals with increasing complexity can speed up search
with genetic programming.",
notes = "Also known as \cite{2001965} Distributed on CD-ROM at
GECCO-2011.