Genetic Transposition in Tree-Adjoining Grammar Guided Genetic Programming: The Duplication Operator

We empirically investigate the use of dual duplication/truncation operators both as mutation operators and as generic local search operators, in combination with genetic search in a tree adjoining grammar guided genetic programming system (TAG3P). The results show that, on the problems tried, duplication/truncation works well as a mutation operator but not reliably when the complexity of the problem was scaled up. When using these dual operators as a generic local search operator, however, it helped TAG3P not only to solve the problems reliably but also cope well with scalability in problem complexity. Moreover, it managed to solve problems with very small population sizes.

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