A competitive building block hypothesis

Conor Ryan, Hammad Majeed, Atif Azad

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Abstract

This paper is concerned with examining the way in which rooted building blocks grow in GP-like systems. We hypothesize that, in addition to the normal notion of co-operative building blocks, there are also competitive building blocks in the population. These competitive building blocks are all of the rooted variety, all share a similar root structure and compete with each other to spread their particular extensions to the common structure throughout the population. We demonstrate that not only do these competitive building blocks exist, but that they work in tandem with non-rooted co-operative building blocks.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsRiccardo Poli, Owen Holland, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Hans-Georg Beyer, Edmund Burke, Paul Darwen, Dipankar Dasgupta, Dario Floreano, James Foster, Mark Harman, Pier Luca Lanzi, Lee Spector, Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi, Dirk Thierens, Andrew M. Tyrrell
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages654-665
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)3540223436
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2004

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3103
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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