title = "An Improved Single Node Genetic Programming for
Symbolic Regression",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 7th International Joint Conference
on Computational Intelligence, ECTA 2015",
year = "2015",
editor = "Agostinho Rosa and Juan Julian Merelo and
Antonio Dourado and Jose M. Cadenas and Kurosh Madani and
Antonio Ruano and Joaquim Filipe",
pages = "244--251",
address = "Lisbon, Portugal",
month = "12-14 " # nov,
organisation = "INSTICC - Institute for Systems and Technologies of
Information, Control and Communication, IFAC -
International Federation of Automatic Control, IEEE SMC
- IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society",
publisher = "SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications",
abstract = "This paper presents a first step of our research on
designing an effective and efficient GP-based method
for solving the symbolic regression. We have proposed
three extensions of the standard Single Node GP, namely
(1) a selection strategy for choosing nodes to be
mutated based on the depth of the nodes, (2) operators
for placing a compact version of the best tree to the
beginning and to the end of the population, and (3) a
local search strategy with multiple mutations applied
in each iteration. All the proposed modifications have
been experimentally evaluated on three symbolic
regression problems and compared with standard GP and
SNGP. The achieved results are promising showing the
potential of the proposed modifications to
significantly improve the performance of the SNGP
algorithm.",