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Call for Papers and Participation
Genetic Programming 1996 Conference (GP-96)
July 28 - 31 (Sunday - Wednesday), 1996
Fairchild Auditorium
Stanford University
Stanford, California USA
In Cooperation with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),
SIGART, the IEEE Neural Network Council, and the American Association
for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
Proceedings will be published by The MIT Press
WWW: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/gp-96.html
Genetic programming is a domain-independent method for automatic
programming that evolves computer programs that solve, or
approximately solve, problems. Starting with a primordial ooze of
thousands of randomly created computer programs composed of
functions and terminals appropriate to a problem, a genetic population
is progressively evolved over many generations by applying the Darwinian
principle of survival of the fittest, a sexual recombination
operation, and occasional mutation.
This first GP conference will feature contributed papers, tutorials,
invited speakers, and informal meetings. Topics
include, but are not limited to,
- applications of genetic programming
- theoretical foundations of genetic programming
- implementation issues
- parallelization techniques
- technique extensions
- implementations of memory and state
- representation issues
- new operators
- architectural evolution
- evolution of mental models
- cellular encoding
- evolution of machine language programs
- evolvable hardware
- combinations with other machine learning techniques
- relations to biology and cognitive systems
Honorary Chair
John Holland, University of Michigan
Invited Speakers
John Holland, University of Michigan
David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois
General Chair
John Koza,
Stanford University
Publicity Chair
Patrick Tufts, Brandeis University
Program Committee
- Russell J. Abbott, California State University, Los
Angeles and The Aerospace Corporation
- Hojjat Adeli, Ohio State University
- Dennis Allison, Stanford University
- Lee Altenberg, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology
- David Andre, Stanford University
- Peter J. Angeline, Loral Federal Systems
- Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany
- Rik Belew, University of California at San Diego
- Samy Bengio, Centre National d'Etudes des
Telecommunications, France
- Forrest H. Bennett III, Genetic Algorithms Technology Corporation
- Scott Brave, Stanford University
- Bill P. Buckles, Tulane University
- Walter Cedeno, Primavera Systems Inc.
- Nichael Lynn Cramer, BBN System and Technologies
- Mark Crosbie, Purdue University
- Jason Daida, University of Michigan
- Patrik D'haeseleer, University of New Mexico
- Marco Dorigo, Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Bertrand Daniel Dunay, System Dynamics International
- Andrew N. Edmonds, Science in Finance Ltd., UK
- H.H. Ehrenburg, CWI, The Netherlands
- Frank D. Francone, FRISEC - Francone and Raymond Institute for the
Study of Evolutionary Computation, Germany
- Adam P. Fraser, University of Salford
- Alex Fukunaga, University of California, Los Angeles
- Frederic Gruau, Stanford University
- Richard J. Hampo, Ford Motor Company
- Simon Handley, Stanford University
- Thomas D. Haynes, The University of Tulsa
- Hitoshi Hemmi, ATR, Kyoto, Japan
- Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University
- Thomas Huang, University of Illinois
- Hitoshi Iba, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan
- Christian Andrew Johnson, Dept. of Economics, Univ. of Santiago
- Martin A. Keane, Econometrics Inc.
- Mike Keith, Allen Bradely Controls
- Maarten Keijzer
- Kenneth E. Kinnear, Jr., Adaptive Computing Technology
- W. B. Langdon, University College, London
- David Levine, Argonne National Laboratory
- Nicholas Freitag McPhee, University of Minnesota, Morris
- Kenneth Marko, Ford Motor Company
- Martin C. Martin, Carnegie Mellon University
- Sidney R Maxwell III
- David Montana, BBN System and Technologies
- Heinz Muehlenbein, GMD Research Center, Germany
- Robert B. Nachbar, Merck Research Laboratories
- Peter Nordin, University of Dortmund, Germany
- Howard Oakley, Institute of Naval Medicine, United
Kingdom
- Franz Oppacher, Carleton University, Ottawa
- Una-May O'Reilly, Carleton University, Ottawa
- Michael Papka, Argonne National Laboratory
- Timothy Perkis
- Frederick E. Petry, Tulane University
- Bill Punch, Michigan State University
- Justinian P. Rosca, University of Rochester
- Conor Ryan, University College Cork, Ireland
- Malcolm Shute, University of Brighton
- Eric V. Siegel, Columbia University
- Karl Sims
- Andrew Singleton, Creation Mechanics
- Lee Spector, Hampshire College
- Walter Alden Tackett, Neuromedia
- Astro Teller, Carnegie Mellon University
- Marco Tomassini, Ecole Polytechnique, Federale de Lausanne
- Patrick Tufts, Brandeis University
- V. Rao Vemuri, University of Califonia at Davis
- Peter A. Whigham, Australia
- Darrell
Whitley, Colorado State University
- Man Leung Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Alden H. Wright, University of Montana
- Byoung-Tak Zhang, GMD, Germany
Special Program Chairs
The main focus of the conference (and about two-thirds of
the papers) will be on genetic programming. In addition,
papers describing recent developments in the following closely related
areas of evolutionary computation (particularly those
addressing issues common to various areas of evolutionary
computation) will be reviewed by special program
committees appointed and supervised by the following
special program chairs.
- Genetic Algorithms
- David
E. Goldberg, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Reviewers for this track are:
- Charles L. Karr, University of Alabama
- Laurence D. Merkle,
Air Force Institute of Technology
- Liwei Wang,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Sushil J. Louis,
University of Nevada, Reno
- Kalyanmoy Deb,
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
- David E. Goldberg,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Classifier Systems
- Rick Riolo, University of Michigan
- Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies
- David Fogel, University of California, San Diego, California
Tutorials
Sunday, July 28
9:15am - 11:30am
- Genetic Algorithms
- David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois
- Machine Language Genetic Programming
- Peter Nordin, University of Dortmund, Germany
- Genetic Programming using Mathematica
- Robert Nachbar, Merck Research Laboratories
- Introduction to Genetic Programming
- John Koza, Stanford University
1:00pm - 3:15pm
- Classifier Systems
- Robert Elliott Smith, University of Alabama
- Evolutionary Computation for Constraint Optimization
- Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of North Carolina
- Advanced Genetic Programming
- John Koza, Stanford University
3:45pm - 6:00pm
- Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies
- David Fogel, University of California at San Diego
- Cellular Encoding
- Frederic Gruau, Stanford University (via videotape) and David
Andre, Stanford University (in person)
- Genetic Programming with Linear Genomes (one hour)
- Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany
- Echo
- Terry Jones, Santa Fe Institute
Tuesday, July 30
3:00pm - 5:15pm
- Neural Networks
- David E. Rumelhart, Stanford University
- Machine Learning
- Pat Langley, Stanford University
- Molecular Biology for Computer
Scientists
- Russell B. Altman, Stanford University
Information for Submitting Papers
The deadline for receipt at the physical mail address below of seven
(7) copies of each submitted paper is
now 5pm, January 15, 1996.
Papers are to be in single-spaced, 12-point type on 8 1/2"
x 11" or A4 paper (no e-mail or fax) with full 1" margins at top,
bottom, left, and right. Papers are to contain ALL of the following 9
items within a maximum of 10 pages, in this order:
- title of paper
- author name(s)
- author physical address(es)
- author e-mail address(es)
- author phone number(s)
- a 100-200 word abstract of the paper
- the
paper's category (chosen from one of the following five
alternatives: genetic programming, genetic algorithms,
classifier systems, evolutionary programming, or evolution
strategies)
- the text of the paper (including all figures and
tables)
- bibliography
All other elements of the
paper (e.g., acknowledgments, appendices, if any) must
come within the maximum of 10 pages. Review criteria
will include significance of the work, novelty, sufficiency
of information to permit replication (if applicable), clarity,
and writing quality. The first-named (or other
designated) author will be notified of acceptance or
rejection by approximately
Monday, February 26, 1996. The style of the
camera-ready paper will be identical to that of the 1994 Simulation
of Adaptive Behavior conference published by MIT Press.
Depending on the number, subject, and content of the submitted papers,
the program committee may decide to allocate different numbers of
pages to various accepted papers.
The deadline for the camera-ready, revised version of accepted papers
will be announced, but will be approximately Wednesday, March 20, 1996. Proceedings will be
published by The MIT Press and will be available at the conference
(and, if requested, by priority mail to registered conference
attendees with U.S. addresses just prior to the conference). One author will be
expected to present each accepted paper at the conference.
For More Information
Housing
Stanford is about 40 miles south of San Francisco, about 25
miles south of the SF airport, and about 25 miles north of
San Jose, California (see maps of the Bay Area and Palo
Alto). There are numerous hotels of all types adjacent
to, or near, the campus (many along El Camino Real
Avenue in Palo Alto and nearby Mountain View and Menlo Park, see the Palo Alto Chamber of
Commerce's lodging
guide). An
optional housing and meals package will be available from
the Conference Department at Stanford University. For more details,
fill out the appropriate box on the registration form.
For more information about the Bay Area, try the Stanford University home page, the
Hyperion Guide
,the Palo Alto weekly; the
California
Virtual Tourist; and the Yahoo Guide of San
Francisco.
Student Travel Grants
Check the appropriate box on the registration form for more
information.
Discounted Travel
For further information regarding special GP-96 airline and
car rental rates, please contact Conventions in America at
e-mail flycia@balboa.com;
or phone 1-800-929-4242; or
phone 619-678-3600; or FAX 619-678-3699.
About the GP-96 Conference
E-mail:
gp@aaai.org
Regular mail
GP-96 Conference
c/o American Association for Artificial Intelligence
445 Burgess Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: 415-328-3123
Fax: 415-321-4457
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