On the use of Gene Dependency to Avoid Deceptive Traps

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2002), New York, USA, 9-13 July 2002THis paper presents a new approach to the field of genetic algorithms, basedon the indroduction of dependency between genes, as inspired by Grammatical Evolution. A system based on that approach, LINKGUAGE, is presented, and results reported show how the dependency between genes creates a tight linkage, guiding the system to success on hard deceptive linkage problems