Hi Uday,
I already have a plan how the represented rule should be evaluated. I'll write an 
API to JBoss Drools, which is a rule-based System. The Output of the System will 
be compared to a goldstandard by a comparator which I have to write. It returns a 
F-Score or something similar to it. The Score goes into the fitness function. 

But my problem is the pruning. I need a step where I can check a syntax tree for useless
part-trees. Otherwise the trees have no limits on how big it can grow. I wanted to check 
while post-processing the tree, but seems that ECJ does not support it. 

How did you solve the chunk-condition problem for rules?

Greetings 
Bojan


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Von: Uday kamath <[log in to unmask]>
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Gesendet: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:28:38 +0200 (CEST)
Betreff: Re: Postprocessing in ec.gp

Bojan
There are no pre written post processing out of the box as it depends on
the problem (function set of GP). I will give a short background which you
may find useful for what you are doing.
 For generating automated Rules to discriminate certain patterns, i had my
GP have basic terminals and non-terminals required for the Rule. I would
collect my "exceptional" Rules as a memory pad outside of evolutionary
runs, everytime i see some well performing ones. Finally i get a Rule set
and wrote my Custom "interpreter" that can parse the GP Individuals as
s-expression to evaluate. So ECJ gives you GP and Evolution for free, you
need to write custom functions and interpreter for them.
Hope that helps
Uday


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Bojan Janisch <
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> Hello everyone,
>
> is there a post-processing-step in the Genetic Programming algorithm? I've
> search through the manual,
> but did not find an explanation about this topic.
>
> Thank you and greetings,
> Bojan
>