The effect of plagues in genetic programming: a study of variable-size populations

Authors:
Francisco Fernandez;Leonardo Vanneschi;Marco Tomassini
Affiliations:
University of Extremadura, Computer Science Department, Centro Universitario de Merida, Merida, Spain;Computer Science Institute, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;Computer Science Institute, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Venue:
EuroGP'03 Proceedings of the 6th European conference on Genetic programming
Year:
2003

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Abstract

A study on the effect of variable size populations in genetic programming is presented in this work.We apply the idea of plague (high desease of individuals).We show that although plagues are generally considered as negative events, they can help populations to save computing time and at the same time surviving individuals can reach high peaks in the fitness landscape.