Dynamics of evolutionary robustness

  • Authors:
  • Alan Piszcz;Terence Soule

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Idaho, Moscow, ID;University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Recently there has been considerable interest in determining whether, and how much, evolutionary pressure for genetic robustness influences evolutionary processes. In this paper, we attempt to show that this evolutionary pressure does have a significant effect in typical genetic programming problems. Specifically we demonstrate that in a standard genetic programming implementation to solve a symbolic regression problem, pressure for genetic robustness forces the population away from high fitness, but less robust, solutions in favor of solutions with lower fitness, but higher genetic robustness.