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A Study of Diversity in Multipopulation Genetic Programming

, , , and . Evolution Artificielle, 6th International Conference, volume 2936 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, page 243--255. Marseilles, France, Springer, (27-30 October 2003)Revised Selected Papers.
DOI: doi:10.1007/b96080

Abstract

using multiple communicating populations instead of a single panmictic one may help in maintaining diversity during GP runs. After defining suitable genotypic and phenotypic diversity measures, we apply them to three standard test problems. The experimental results indicate that using multiple populations helps in maintaining phenotypic diversity. We hypothesise that this could be one of the reasons for the better performance observed for distributed GP with respect to panmictic GP. Finally, we trace a sort of history of the optimum individual for a set of distributed GP runs, trying to understand the dynamics that help in maintaining diversity in distributed GP.

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