Mutation: Parse Trees

author = "Peter J. Angeline",

title = "Mutation: Parse Trees",

booktitle = "Handbook of Evolutionary Computation",

publisher = "Oxford University Press",

publisher_2 = "Institute of Physics Publishing",

year = "1997",

editor = "Thomas Baeck and David B. Fogel and Zbigniew Michalewicz",

chapter = "section C3.2.5",

keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",

ISBN = "0-7503-0392-1",

URL = "

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.375.6494.pdf",

DOI = "

doi:10.1201/9781420050387.ptc",

size = "2 pages",

abstract = "Genetics-based evolutionary computations typically discount the role of mutation operation in the induction of evolved structures. This is especially true in genetic programming where mutation operations for parse trees are often not used. Some practitioners of genetic programming believe that mutation has an important role in evolving fit parse trees. This section describes several mutation operations for parse trees used by some genetic programming enthusiasts.",

notes = "grow, shrink,switch, cycle=point",