Does Genetic Programming Inherently Adopt Structured Design Techniques?

Abstract

Basic genetic programming (GP) techniques allowindividuals to take advantage of some basic top-downdesign principles. In order to evaluate theeffectiveness of these techniques, we define a designas an evolutionary frozen root node. We show that GPdesign converges quickly based primarily on the bestindividual in the initial random population. This leadsto speculation of several mechanisms that could be usedto allow basic GP techniques to better incorporatetop-down design principles.