abstract = "A practical method for the offline extraction and
analysis of salient patterns from tree-based genetic
programming (GP) individuals is proposed. The method is
contrasted with Tackett's algorithm [7] and it is shown
that relying solely on frequency and fitness profiles
for the salient pattern identification can be
misleading. To amend Tackett's work a formula for
measuring saliency is proposed. A method for separating
inert and salient patterns is also discussed.",
notes = "GECCO-2009 A joint meeting of the eighteenth
international conference on genetic algorithms
(ICGA-2009) and the fourteenth annual genetic
programming conference (GP-2009).