abstract = "The result of the program encoded into a Genetic
Programming (GP) tree is usually returned by the root
of that tree. However, this is not a general strategy.
In this paper we present and investigate a new variant
where the best subtree is chosen to provide the
solution of the problem. The other nodes (not belonging
to the best subtree) are deleted. This will reduce the
size of the chromosome in those cases where its best
subtree is different from the entire tree. We have
tested this strategy on a wide range of regression and
classification problems. Numerical experiments have
shown that the proposed approach can improve both the
search speed and the quality of results.",
notes = "GECCO-2007 A joint meeting of the sixteenth
international conference on genetic algorithms
(ICGA-2007) and the twelfth annual genetic programming
conference (GP-2007).