It is well known that the performance of a program can often be improved by means of program transformation. Several program transformation techniques, eg. partial evaluation, wor...
The preservation of common components has been recently isolated as a beneficial feature of genetic algorithms. One interpretation of this benefit is that the preservation of commo...
The three mechanisms of crossover are transmission, assortment, and respect. Of these three mechanisms, assortment (i.e. recombination) is traditionally viewed as the primary feat...