Dr John Woodward

Teaching

Introductory Java Programming (BUPT joint programme)

Research

Publications

• Hong L, Woodward JR, Özcan E et al. (2021). Hyper-heuristic approach: automatically designing adaptive mutation operators for evolutionary programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/s40747-021-00507-6

  
  

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• Haraldsson S, Brownlee A, Woodward JR et al. (2021). Genetic improvement: Taking real-world source code and improving it using genetic programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3449726.3461416

  
  

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• Tauritz DR, Woodward J (2021). Hyper-heuristics tutorial. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3449726.3461418

  
  

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• Krari ME, Guibadj RN, Woodward J et al. (2021). Introducing a hash function for the travelling salesman problem for differentiating solutions. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3449726.3459580

  
  

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• Kirbas S, Windels E, Mcbello O et al. (2021). On the Introduction of Automatic Program Repair in Bloomberg. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/MS.2021.3071086

  
  

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• Wang X, Gu Y, Wu G et al. (2021). Robust scheduling for multiple agile Earth observation satellites under cloud coverage uncertainty. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2021.107292

  
  

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• Rezaei MJ, Woodward JR, Ramírez J et al. (2021). A novel two-stage heart arrhythmia ensemble classifier. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.3390/computers10050060

  
  

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• De Lemos F, Woodward J (2021). Calculating block time and consumed fuel for an aircraft model. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1017/aer.2020.137

  
  

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• Gan Y, Chen X, Huang Q et al. (2021). Towards Robustness of Text-to-SQL Models against Synonym Substitution. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.acl-long.195

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/72701
• Wang X, Brownlee AEI, Woodward JR et al. (2020). Aircraft taxi time prediction: Feature importance and their implications. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2020.102892

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/71120
• Rezaei MJ, Woodward JR, Ramirez J et al. (2020). Data Augmentation for Heart Arrhythmia Classification. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/ICTAI50040.2020.00145

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/69806
• Volkovas R, Fairbank M, Woodward JR et al. (2020). Practical Game Design Tool: State Explorer. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CoG47356.2020.9231863

  
  

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• Nowack V, Bowes D, Counsell S et al. (2020). Exploiting Fault Localisation for Efficient Program Repair. GECCO ’20 Companion

  
  

  DOI: doi

  
  

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• Haraldsson S, Woodward JR, Wagner M (2020). Genetic improvement: Taking real-world source code and improving it using genetic programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3377929.3389885

  
  

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• Tauritz DR, Woodward J (2020). Hyper-heuristics tutorial. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3377929.3389855

  
  

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• Winter E, Bowes D, Counsell S et al. (2020). Human Factors in the Study of Automatic Software Repair: Future Directions for Research with Industry. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3387940.3392176

  
  

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• Martin SP, Craven MJ, Woodward JR (2020). A structured approach to modifying successful heuristics. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.5220/0010143702200225

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Wang S, Drake JH, Fairbrother J et al. (2019). A Constructive Heuristic Approach for Single Airport Slot Allocation Problems. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/SSCI44817.2019.9002892

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/69190
• Volkovas R, Fairbank M, Woodward JR et al. (2019). Extracting learning curves from puzzle games. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CEEC47804.2019.8974318

  
  

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• Volkovas R, Fairbank M, Woodward JR et al. (2019). Mek: Mechanics prototyping tool for 2d tile-based turn-based deterministic games. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2019.8848016

  
  

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• Warriar VR, Woodward JR, Tokarchuk L (2019). Modelling player preferences in AR mobile games. IEEE Conference on Computatonal Intelligence and Game

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2019.8848082

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61147
• Warriar VR, Ugarte C, Woodward JR et al. (2019). PlayMapper: Illuminating design spaces of platform games. IEEE Conference on Computatonal Intelligence and Game

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CIG.2019.8848118

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/61146
• Tauritz DR, Woodward J (2019). Hyper-heuristics Tutorial. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3319619.3323382

  
  

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• Lucas S, Liu J, Bravi I et al. (2019). Efficient Evolutionary Methods for Game Agent Optimisation: Model-Based is Best. Game Simulations Workshop (AAAI)

  
  

  DOI: doi

  
  

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• Burke EK, Hyde MR, Kendall G et al. (2019). A classification of hyper-heuristic approaches: Revisited. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91086-4_14

  
  

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• Pappa GL, Emmerich MTM, Bazzan A et al. (2018). Tutorials at PPSN 2018. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-99259-4_38

  
  

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• Tauritz DR, Woodward J (2018). Hyper-heuristics tutorial. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3205651.3207868

  
  

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• Christie LA, Brownlee AEI, Woodward JR (2018). Investigating benchmark correlations when comparing algorithms with parameter tuning. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3205651.3205747

  
  

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• Brownlee AEI, Woodward JR, Veerapen N (2018). Relating training instances to automatic design of algorithms for bin packing via features. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3205651.3205748

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Brownlee AEI, Weiszer M, Woodward JR et al. (2018). A rolling window with genetic algorithm approach to sorting aircraft for automated taxi routing. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3205455.3205558

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/42324
• Petke J, Haraldsson SO, Harman M et al. (2018). Genetic Improvement of Software: A Comprehensive Survey. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2017.2693219

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Brownlee AEI, WEISZER M, CHEN J et al. (2018). A Fuzzy Approach to Addressing Uncertainty in Airport Ground Movement Optimisation. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2018.04.020

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/38064
• DRAKE J, woodward JR (2017). A Hyper-heuristic Approach to Automated Generation of Mutation Operators for Evolutionary Programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2017.10.002

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/28675
• WOODWARD JR (2017). The use of predictive models in dynamic treatment planning. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/ISCC.2017.8024536

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Haraldsson SO, Woodward JR, Brownlee AEI et al. (2017). Fixing bugs in your sleep: How genetic improvement became an overnight success. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3067695.3082517

  
  

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• Haraldsson SO, Woodward JR, Brownlee AEI et al. (2017). Genetic Improvement of Runtime and its Fitness Landscape in a Bioinformatics Application. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3067695.3082526

  
  

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• Tauritz DR, Woodward J (2017). Hyper-heuristics tutorial. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/3067695.3067710

  
  

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• Haraldsson SO, Woodward JR, Brownlee AIE (2017). The use of automatic test data generation for genetic improvement in a live system. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/SBST.2017.10

  
  

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• Bai R, Woodward JR, Subramanian N et al. (2017). Optimisation of transportation service network using κ -node large neighbourhood search. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2017.06.008

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/32403
• Bai R, Woodward JR, Subramanian N (2017). A new fast large neighbourhood search for service network design with asset balance constraints. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/SSCI.2016.7850084

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Haraldsson SO, Woodward JR, Brownlee AEI et al. (2017). Exploring fitness and edit distance of mutated python programs. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55696-3_2

  
  

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• Benlic U, Burke EK, Woodward JR (2017). Breakout local search for the multi-objective gate allocation problem. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2016.08.010

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/15760
• Hong L, Drake JH, Woodward JR et al. (2016). Automatically designing more general mutation operators of Evolutionary Programming for groups of function classes using a hyper-heuristic. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2908812.2908958

  
  

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• Woodward JR, Johnson CG, Brownlee AEI (2016). Connecting automatic parameter tuning, genetic programming as a hyper-heuristic, and genetic improvement programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2908961.2931728

  
  

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• López-Ibáez M, Tauritz D, Woodward J (2016). ECADA 2016 chairs' welcome. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2908961.2931725

  
  

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• Woodward JR, Brownlee AEI, Johnson CG (2016). Evals is not enough: Why we should report wall-clock time. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2908961.2931695

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Woodward JR, Johnson CG, Brownlee AEI (2016). GP vs GI: If you can't beat them, join them. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2908961.2931694

  
  

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• Tauritz DR, Woodward J (2016). Hyper-heuristics. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2908961.2926978

  
  

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• Johnson CG, Woodward JR (2015). Fitness as task-relevant information accumulation. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2739482.2768428

  
  

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• Haraldsson SO, Woodward JR (2015). Genetic improvement of energy usage is only as reliable as the measurements are accurate. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2739482.2768421

  
  

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• Woodward J, Tauritz DR (2015). Hyper-heuristics tutorial. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2739482.2756579

  
  

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• Brownlee AEI, Woodward JR, Swan J (2015). Metaheuristic design pattern: Surrogate fitness functions. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2739482.2768499

  
  

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• Pappa GL, Ochoa G, Hyde MR et al. (2014). Contrasting meta-learning and hyper-heuristic research: The role of evolutionary algorithms. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/s10710-013-9186-9

  
  

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• Swan J, Woodward J, Özcan E et al. (2014). Searching the Hyper-heuristic Design Space. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/s12559-013-9201-8

  
  

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• Brownlee AEI, Atkin JAD, Woodward JR et al. (2014). Airport ground movement: Real world data sets and approaches to handling uncertainty. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: doi

  
  

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• Haraldsson SO, Woodward JR (2014). Automated design of algorithms and genetic improvement: Contrast and commonalities. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2598394.2609874

  
  

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• Woodward J, Martin S, Swan J (2014). Benchmarks that matter for genetic programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2598394.2609875

  
  

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• Chuang Y, Chen L, Chen G et al. (2014). Isophote based center-surround contrast computation for image saliency detection. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1587/transinf.E97.D.160

  
  

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• Woodward J, Swan J (2014). Template method hyper-heuristics. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2598394.2609843

  
  

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• Woodward J, Swan J, Martin S (2014). The 'composite' design pattern in metaheuristics. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2598394.2609848

  
  

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• Majid A, Chen L, Chen G et al. (2013). A context-aware personalized travel recommendation system based on geotagged social media data mining. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2012.696649

  
  

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• Swan J, Drake J, Özcan E et al. (2013). A comparison of acceptance criteria for the daily car-pooling problem. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4594-3_49

  
  

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• Woodward J, Swan J (2013). A syntactic approach to prediction. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-44958-1_34

  
  

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• Cui T, Li J, Woodward JR et al. (2013). An ensemble based Genetic Programming system to predict English football premier league games. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/EAIS.2013.6604116

  
  

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• Hong L, Woodward J, Li J et al. (2013). Automated design of probability distributions as mutation operators for evolutionary programming using genetic programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37207-0_8

  
  

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• Burke EK, Hyde MR, Kendall G et al. (2012). Automating the packing heuristic design process with genetic programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1162/EVCO_a_00044

  
  

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• Woodward J, Swan J (2012). The automatic generation of mutation operators for Genetic Algorithms. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2330784.2330796

  
  

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• Chen L, Lv M, Ye Q et al. (2011). A personal route prediction system based on trajectory data mining. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.11.035

  
  

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• Woodward JR, Swan J (2011). Automatically designing selection heuristics. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/2001858.2002052

  
  

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• Woodward JR (2010). The Necessity of meta bias in search algorithms. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CISE.2010.5677120

  
  

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• Woodward JR, Swan J (2010). Why classifying search algorithms is essential. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/PIC.2010.5687448

  
  

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• Woodward JR, Gindy N (2010). A hyper-heuristic multi-criteria decision support system for eco-efficient product life cycle. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1049/cp.2010.0436

  
  

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• Burke EK, Hyde M, Kendall G et al. (2010). A genetic programming hyper-heuristic approach for evolving 2-D strip packing heuristics. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2010.2041061

  
  

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• Woodward JR, Farjudian A (2010). Artificial life, the second law of thermodynamics, and Kolmogorov complexity. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/PIC.2010.5687924

  
  

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• Woodward JR (2009). Computable and incomputable functions and search algorithms. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/ICICISYS.2009.5358045

  
  

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• Woodward JR, Bai R (2009). Canonical representation genetic programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/1543834.1543914

  
  

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• Burke EK, Hyde MR, Kendall G et al. (2009). Exploring hyper-heuristic methodologies with genetic programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-01799-5_6

  
  

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• Woodward JR, Bai R (2009). Why evolution is not a good paradigm for program induction; A critique of genetic programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/1543834.1543915

  
  

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• Poli R, Woodward J, Burke EK (2007). A histogram-matching approach to the evolution of bin-packing strategies. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2007.4424926

  
  

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• Burke EK, Hyde MR, Kendall G et al. (2007). The scalability of evolved on line bin packing heuristics. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2007.4424789

  
  

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• Burke EK, Hyde MR, Kendall G et al. (2007). Automatic heuristic generation with genetic programming: Evolving a jack-of-all-trades or a master of one. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1145/1276958.1277273

  
  

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• Woodward JR (2006). Complexity and Cartesian genetic programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/11729976_23

  
  

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• Woodward JR (2006). Invariance of function complexity under primitive recursive functions. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/11729976_28

  
  

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• Woodward J (2005). Complexity and cartesian genetic programming. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Woodward J (2005). Invariaiice of function complexity under primitive reeursive functions. nameOfConference

  
  

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• Woodward JR (2003). Evolving turing complete representations. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2003.1299753

  
  

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• Woodward JR (2003). GA or GP? That is not the question. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2003.1299785

  
  

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• Woodward JR (2003). Modularity in Genetic Programming. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36599-0_23

  
  

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• Woodward JR, Neil JR (2003). No free lunch, program induction and combinatorial problems. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36599-0_45

  
  

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