gLINC: identifying composability using group perturbation

We present two novel perturbation-based linkage learning algorithms that extend LINC [5]; a version of LINC optimised for decomposition tasks (oLINC) and a hierarchical version of oLINC (gLINC). We show how gLINC decomposes a fitness landscape significantly faster than both LINC and oLINC.We present details of LINC, oLINC and gLINC, an empirical comparison of their speed, accuracy and sensitivity to population size on a concatenated trap function, and a discussion of their complexity and correctness.