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Proposes SPECIALISE and DECOMPOSE operators, like encapsulate and expand, but applied infrequently and depending upon how the GP is going. SPECIALISE would look for common code in better programs and convert them to functions which cannot be disrupted by crossover.
However: ``Regarding the specialize and decompose operators, we abandoned them after very preliminary work''.
References Ken De Jong ICGA-87
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Genetic Programming entries for Una-May O'Reilly Franz Oppacher