abstract = "improving the crossover operator in genetic
programming for object recognition particularly object
classification problems. In this approach, instead of
randomly choosing the crossover points as in the
standard crossover operator, we use a measure called
looseness to guide the selection of crossover points.
Rather than using the genetic beam search only, this
approach uses a hybrid beam-hill climbing search scheme
in the evolutionary process. This approach is examined
and compared with the standard crossover operator and
the headless chicken crossover method on a sequence of
object classification problems. The results suggest
that this approach outperforms both the headless
chicken crossover and the standard crossover on all of
these problems.",
notes = "WCCI 2006 - A joint meeting of the IEEE, the EPS, and
the IEE.