A Field Guide to Genetic Programming

3 Getting Ready to Run Genetic Programming 3.1 Step 1: Terminal Set 3.2 Step 2: Function Set 3.2.1 Closure 3.2.2 Sufficiency 3.2.3 Evolving Structures other than Programs 3.3 Step 3: Fitness Function 3.4 Step 4: GP Parameters 3.5 Step 5: Termination and solution designation 4 Example Genetic Programming Run 29 4.1 Preparatory Steps 4.2 Step-by-Step Sample Run 4.2.1 Initialisation 4.2.2 Fitness Evaluation 4.2.3 Selection, Crossover and Mutation 4.2.4 Termination and Solution Designation Part II Advanced Genetic Programming 5 Alternative Initialisations and Operators in Tree-based GP 5.1 Constructing the Initial Population 5.1.1 Uniform Initialisation 5.1.2 Initialisation may Affect Bloat 5.1.3 Seeding 5.2 GP…