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02040705 Daida, Jason M. Hilss, Adam M. Identifying structural mechanisms in standard genetic programming. Cant\'u-Paz, Erick (ed.) et al., Genetic and evolutionary computation -- GECCO 2003. Genetic and evolutionary computation conference, Chicago, IL, USA, July 12--16, 2003. Proceedings, Part II. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 3-540-40603-4/pbk). Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2724, 1639-1651 (2003). 2003 Berlin: Springer EN

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Summary: This paper presents a hypothesis about an undiscovered class of mechanisms that exist in standard GP. Rather than being intentionally designed, these mechanisms would be an unintended consequence of using trees as information structures. A model is described that predicts outcomes in GP that would arise solely from such mechanisms. Comparisons with empirical results from GP lend support to the existence of these mechanisms.