Abstract
It has been known since the early days of Genetic
Programming that the evolutionary process tends to
stagnate after a certain number of generations.
Furthermore, during the evolutionary process, there is
an inexorable and sometimes exponential increase in the
average size of programs in a population. This has been
called bloat. The major cause of this bloat appears to
be caused by introns - sections of non-functional code.
In this paper introns are categorised and different
approaches to the control of code growth are
described.
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