Several methods to incorporate semantic awareness in genetic programming have been
proposed in the last few years. These methods cover fundamental parts of the evolutionary …

Carpooling is a means of vehicle sharing by which drivers share their cars with one or more
riders whose travel itineraries are similar to their own. As such, carpooling can be an …

Population diversity is generally seen as playing a crucial role in the ability of evolutionary
computation techniques to discover solutions. In genetic programming, diversity metrics are …

This paper focuses on lock and quay co-scheduling problem (LQCP) so that delay time of
ships at a lock and time spent at the quay are minimized. The task can be regarded as a …

The generation of explanations regarding decisions made by population-based meta-
heuristics is often a difficult task due to the nature of the mechanisms employed by these …

Explaining the decisions made by population‐based metaheuristics can often be considered
difficult due to the stochastic nature of the mechanisms employed by these optimisation …

A key factor in the success or otherwise of a genetic programming population in evolving
towards a solution is the extent of diversity amongst its members. Diversity may be viewed in …

The initial population distribution is an essential issue in evolutionary computation
performance. Population initialization methods for grammar-guided genetic programming …

Estimating the fitness value of individuals in an evolutionary algorithm in order to reduce the
computational expense of actually calculating the fitness has been a classical pursuit of …

Diversity, the ability of a searcher to explore different parts of the search space, and locality,
the ability of a searcher to exploit a specific area of the search space, have long been seen …