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Genetic Programming Theory and Practice X

Part of the book series: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GEVO)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. A Practical Platform for On-Line Genetic Programming for Robotics

    • Terence Soule, Robert B. Heckendorn
    Pages 15-29
  3. Cartesian Genetic Programming for Image Processing

    • Simon Harding, Jürgen Leitner, Jürgen Schmidhuber
    Pages 31-44
  4. A New Mutation Paradigm for Genetic Programming

    • Christian Darabos, Mario Giacobini, Ting Hu, Jason H. Moore
    Pages 45-58
  5. Introducing an Age-Varying Fitness Estimation Function

    • Babak Hodjat, Hormoz Shahrzad
    Pages 59-71
  6. EC-Star: A Massive-Scale, Hub and Spoke, Distributed Genetic Programming System

    • Una-May O’Reilly, Mark Wagy, Babak Hodjat
    Pages 73-85
  7. Genetic Analysis of Prostate Cancer Using Computational Evolution, Pareto-Optimization and Post-processing

    • Jason H. Moore, Douglas P. Hill, Arvis Sulovari, La Creis Kidd
    Pages 87-101
  8. Meta-Dimensional Analysis of Phenotypes Using the Analysis Tool for Heritable and Environmental Network Associations (ATHENA): Challenges with Building Large Networks

    • Marylyn D. Ritchie, Emily R. Holzinger, Scott M. Dudek, Alex T. Frase, Prabhakar Chalise, Brooke Fridley
    Pages 103-115
  9. A Baseline Symbolic Regression Algorithm

    • Michael F. Korns
    Pages 117-137
  10. Symbolic Regression Model Comparison Approach Using Transmitted Variation

    • Flor A. Castillo, Carlos M. Villa, Arthur K. Kordon
    Pages 139-154
  11. A Framework for the Empirical Analysis of Genetic Programming System Performance

    • Oliver Flasch, Thomas Bartz-Beielstein
    Pages 155-169
  12. More or Less? Two Approaches to Evolving Game-Playing Strategies

    • Amit Benbassat, Achiya Elyasaf, Moshe Sipper
    Pages 171-185
  13. Symbolic Regression Is Not Enough: It Takes a Village to Raise a Model

    • Mark E. Kotanchek, Ekaterina Vladislavleva, Guido Smits
    Pages 187-203
  14. FlexGP.py: Prototyping Flexibly-Scaled, Flexibly-Factored Genetic Programming for the Cloud

    • James McDermott, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Una-May O’Reilly
    Pages 205-221
  15. Representing Communication and Learning in Femtocell Pilot Power Control Algorithms

    • Erik Hemberg, Lester Ho, Michael O’Neill, Holger Claussen
    Pages 223-238
  16. Back Matter

    Pages 239-242

About this book

These contributions, written by the foremost international researchers and practitioners of Genetic Programming (GP), explore the synergy between theoretical and empirical results on real-world problems, producing a comprehensive view of the state of the art in GP.

Topics in this volume include: evolutionary constraints, relaxation of selection mechanisms, diversity preservation strategies, flexing fitness evaluation, evolution in dynamic environments, multi-objective and multi-modal selection, foundations of evolvability, evolvable and adaptive evolutionary operators, foundation of  injecting expert knowledge in evolutionary search, analysis of problem difficulty and required GP algorithm complexity, foundations in running GP on the cloud – communication, cooperation, flexible implementation, and ensemble methods. Additional focal points for GP symbolic regression are: (1) The need to guarantee convergence to solutions in the function discovery mode; (2) Issues on model validation; (3) The need for model analysis workflows for insight generation based on generated GP solutions – model exploration, visualization, variable selection, dimensionality analysis; (4) Issues in combining different types of data.

Readers will discover large-scale, real-world applications of GP to a variety of problem domains via in-depth presentations of the latest and most significant results.

Reviews

From the book reviews:

“This book reflects the progress made in GP during recent years. It covers a large range of up-to-date applications and theoretical issues. All of the papers are valuable and are recommended reading for AI scientists or novices.” (Svetlana Segarceanu, Computing Reviews, July, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

    Rick Riolo

  • Evolved Analytics Europe BVBA, Beerse, Belgium

    Ekaterina Vladislavleva

  • , Department of Biochemistry and Molecular, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    Marylyn D Ritchie

  • , Institute for Quantitative, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, USA

    Jason H. Moore

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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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