The K landscapes: a tunably difficult benchmark for genetic programming

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@InProceedings{Vanneschi:2011:GECCO,

• author = "Leonardo Vanneschi and Mauro Castelli and Luca Manzoni",
• title = "The K landscapes: a tunably difficult benchmark for genetic programming",
• booktitle = "GECCO '11: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation",
• year = "2011",
• editor = "Natalio Krasnogor and Pier Luca Lanzi and Andries Engelbrecht and David Pelta and Carlos Gershenson and Giovanni Squillero and Alex Freitas and Marylyn Ritchie and Mike Preuss and Christian Gagne and Yew Soon Ong and Guenther Raidl and Marcus Gallager and Jose Lozano and Carlos Coello-Coello and Dario Landa Silva and Nikolaus Hansen and Silja Meyer-Nieberg and Jim Smith and Gus Eiben and Ester Bernado-Mansilla and Will Browne and Lee Spector and Tina Yu and Jeff Clune and Greg Hornby and Man-Leung Wong and Pierre Collet and Steve Gustafson and Jean-Paul Watson and Moshe Sipper and Simon Poulding and Gabriela Ochoa and Marc Schoenauer and Carsten Witt and Anne Auger",
• isbn13 = "978-1-4503-0557-0",
• pages = "1467--1474",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
• month = "12-16 " # jul,
• organisation = "SIGEVO",
• address = "Dublin, Ireland",
• DOI = "doi:10.1145/2001576.2001773",
• publisher = "ACM",
• publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
• size = "8 pages",
• abstract = "The NK landscapes are a well known benchmark for genetic algorithms (GAs) in which it is possible to tune the ruggedness of the fitness landscape by simply modifying the value of a parameter K. They have successfully been used in many theoretical studies, allowing researchers to discover interesting properties of the GAs dynamics in presence of rugged landscapes. A similar benchmark does not exist for genetic programming (GP) yet. Nevertheless, during the EuroGP conference debates of the last few years, the necessity of defining new benchmark problems for GP has repeatedly been expressed by a large part of the attendees. This paper is intended to fill this gap, by introducing an extension of the NK landscapes to tree based GP, that we call K landscapes. In this benchmark, epistasis are expressed as growing mutual interactions between the substructures of a tree as the parameter K increases. The fact that the problem becomes more and more difficult as the value of K increases is experimentally demonstrated. Interestingly, we also show that GP bloats more and more as K increases.",
• notes = "Also known as \cite{2001773} GECCO-2011 A joint meeting of the twentieth international conference on genetic algorithms (ICGA-2011) and the sixteenth annual genetic programming conference (GP-2011)",

}

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