abstract = "In nature, aquatic ecosystems play a very important
aspect. River valleys, wetlands, and water reservoirs
are territories for various species of vegetation and
wildlife. The prediction of these species is very
important for natural resource planning. In this work,
a publicly available UCI dataset containing extracted
features from satellite imagery is used to classify the
presence of newt-amphibians. We convert this
multi-class classification problem to the binary
classification problem. The transformation leads to
being unbalanced classification problem. For the
unbalanced classification, in the original form, most
machine learning techniques give biased classification
results, and their results are inclined in favor of the
majority class. We use genetic programming with a newly
proposed Euclidean distance and weight-based (EDWB)
fitness function to resolve this problem. The result
outcomes are compared with original work, support
vector machine (SVM), and GP with the standard fitness
function. The proposed approach achieves better results
than the original work, SVM, and compared GP methods.",