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A Study of the Role of Single Node Mutation in Genetic Programming*
Wei Quan and Terence Soule
Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-1010tsoule@cs.uidaho.edu
Abstract. In this paper we examine the effects of single node mutations on trees evolved via genetic programming. The results show that neutral mutations are less likely for nodes nearer the root and that as evolution proceeds neutral mutations of nodes near the root are progressively less likely.
*This work supported by NSF EPSCoR EPS-0132626.
LNCS 3103, p. 717 f.
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