Tournament selection is the most frequently used form of selection in genetic programming (GP). Tournament selection chooses individuals uniformly at random from the population. A...
Io is small prototype-based programming language. The ideas in Io are mostly inspired by Smalltalk[1] (all values are objects), Self[2] (prototype-based), NewtonScript[3] (differe...
Program and system comprehension are vital parts of the software maintenance process. We discuss the need for both perspectives and describe two methods that may be integrated to ...
Christos Tjortjis, Nicolas Gold, Paul J. Layzell, ...
The notion of evolvability has been put forward to describe the“core mechanism”of natural and artificial evolution. Recently, studies have revealed the influence of the envi...
We present an algorithm called Optimistic Linear Programming (OLP) for learning to optimize average reward in an irreducible but otherwise unknown Markov decision process (MDP). O...