ICST
2011
IEEE
12 years 8 months ago
2011
IEEE
—The length of test cases is a little investigated topic in search-based test generation for object oriented software, where test cases are sequences of method calls. While intui...
EC
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
Genetic programming has highlighted the problem of bloat, the uncontrolled growth of the average size of an individual in the population. The most common approach to dealing with ...
GECCO
2008
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
2008
Springer
The crossover bias theory for bloat [18] is a recent result which predicts that bloat is caused by the sampling of short, unfit programs. This theory is clear and simple, but it ...
GECCO
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2009
Springer
Bloat is a common problem with Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) that use variable length representation. By creating unnecessarily large individuals it results in longer EA runtimes ...