This involves defining a schema, schema order, and defining length and accounting for the variable length and the non-homologous nature of GP'S representation. The GP Schema Theorem and the related ...

This paper is the second part of a two-part paper which introduces a general schema theory for genetic programming (GP) with subtree-swapping crossover (Part I (Poli and McPhee, 2003)). Like other ...

We review the main results obtained in the theory of schemata in genetic programming (GP), emphasizing their strengths and weaknesses. Then we propose a new, simpler definition of the concept of ...