--------------------------------------------------------------- 90 PAPERS APPEARING IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE GP-96 CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY ON JULY 28-31, 1996 --------------------------------------------------------------- LONG GENETIC PROGRAMMING PAPERS Discovery by Genetic Programming of a Cellular Automata Rule that is Better than any Known Rule for the Majority Classification Problem --- David Andre, Forrest H Bennett III, and John R. Koza A Study in Program Response and the Negative Effects of Introns in Genetic Programming --- David Andre and Astro Teller An Investigation into the Sensitivity of Genetic Programming to the Frequency of Leaf Selection During Subtree Crossover --- Peter J. Angeline Automatic Creation of an Efficient Multi-Agent Architecture Using Genetic Programming with Architecture-Altering Operations --- Forrest H Bennett III Evolving Deterministic Finite Automata Using Cellular Encoding --- Scott Brave Genetic Programming and the Efficient Market Hypothesis --- Shu-Heng Chen and Chia-Hsuan Yeh Bargaining by Artificial Agents in Two Coalition Games: A Study in Genetic Programming for Electronic Commerce --- Garett Dworman, Steven O. Kimbrough, and James D. Laing Waveform Recognition Using Genetic Programming: The Myoelectric Signal Recognition Problem --- Jaime J. Fernandez, Kristin A. Farry, and John B. Cheatham Benchmarking the Generalization Capabilities of A Compiling Genetic programming System using Sparse Data Sets --- Frank D. Francone, Peter Nordin, and Wolfgang Banzhaf A Comparison between Cellular Encoding and Direct Encoding for Genetic Neural Networks --- Frederic Gruau, Darrell Whitley, and Larry Pyeatt Entailment for Specification Refinement --- Thomas Haynes, Rose Gamble, Leslie Knight, and Roger Wainwright Genetic Programming of Near-Minimum-Time Spacecraft Attitude Maneuvers --- Brian Howley Evolving Evolution Programs: Genetic Programming and L-Systems --- Christian Jacob Genetic Programming using Genotype-Phenotype Mapping from Linear Genomes into Linear Phenotypes --- Robert E. Keller and Wolfgang Banzhaf Automated WYWIWYG Design of Both the Topology and Component Values of Electrical Circuits Using Genetic Programming --- John R. Koza, Forrest H Bennett III, David Andre, and Martin A. Keane Use of Automatically Defined Functions and Architecture-Altering Operations in Automated Circuit Synthesis Using Genetic Programming --- John R. Koza, David Andre, Forrest H Bennett III, and Martin A. Keane Using Data Structures within Genetic Programming --- W. B. Langdon Evolving Teamwork and Coordination with Genetic Programming --- Sean Luke and Lee Spector Using Genetic Programming to Develop Inferential Estimation Algorithms --- Ben McKay, Mark Willis, Gary Montague, and Geoffrey W. Barton Dynamics of Genetic Programming and Chaotic Time Series Prediction --- Brian S. Mulloy, Rick L. Riolo, and Robert S. Savit Genetic Programming, the Reflection of Chaos, and the Bootstrap: Towards a useful Test for Chaos --- E. Howard N. Oakley Solving Facility Layout Problems Using Genetic Programming --- Jaime Garces-Perez, Dale A. Schoenefeld, and Roger L. Wainwright Variations in Evolution of Subsumption Architectures Using Genetic Programming: The Wall Following Robot Revisited --- Steven J. Ross, Jason M. Daida, Chau M. Doan, Tommaso F. Bersano- Begey, and Jeffrey J. McClain MASSON: Discovering Commonalties in Collection of Objects using Genetic Programming --- Tae-Wan Ryu and Christoph F. Eick Cultural Transmission of Information in Genetic Programming --- Lee Spector and Sean Luke Code Growth in Genetic Programming --- Terence Soule, James A. Foster, and John Dickinson High-Performance, Parallel, Stack-Based Genetic Programming --- Kilian Stoffel and Lee Spector Search Bias, Language Bias, and Genetic Programming --- P. A. Whigham Learning Recursive Functions from Noisy Examples using Generic Genetic Programming --- Man Leung Wong and Kwong Sak Leung SHORT GENETIC PROGRAMMING PAPERS Classification using Cultural Co-Evolution and Genetic Programming --- Myriam Abramson and Lawrence Hunter Type-Constrained Genetic Programming for Rule-Base Definition in Fuzzy Logic Controllers --- Enrique Alba, Carlos Cotta, and Jose J. Troyo The Evolution of Memory and Mental Models Using Genetic Programming --- Scott Brave Automatic Generation of Object-Oriented Programs Using Genetic Programming --- Wilker Shane Bruce Evolving Event Driven Programs --- Mark Crosbie and Eugene H. Spafford Computer-Assisted Design of Image Classification Algorithms: Dynamic and Static Fitness Evaluations in a Scaffolded Genetic Programming Environment -- - Jason M. Daida, Tommaso F. Bersano-Begey, Steven J. Ross, and John F. Vesecky Improved Direct Acyclic Graph Handling and the Combine Operator in Genetic Programming --- Herman Ehrenburg An Adverse Interaction between Crossover and Restricted Tree Depth in Genetic Programming --- Chris Gathercole and Peter Ross The Prediction of the Degree of Exposure to Solvent of Amino Acid Residues via Genetic Programming --- Simon Handley A New Class of Function Sets for Solving Sequence Problems --- Simon Handley Evolving Edge Detectors with Genetic Programming --- Christopher Harris and Bernard Buxton Toward Simulated Evolution of Machine Language Iteration --- Lorenz Huelsbergen Robustness of Robot Programs Generated by Genetic Programming --- Takuya Ito, Hitoshi Iba, and Masayuki Kimura Signal Path Oriented Approach for Generation of Dynamic Process Models --- Peter Marenbach, Kurt D. Betterhausen, and Stephan Freyer Evolving Control Laws for a Network of Traffic Signals --- David J. Montana and Steven Czerwinski Distributed Genetic Programming: Empirical Study and Analysis --- Tatsuya Niwa and Hitoshi Iba Programmatic Compression of Images and Sound --- Peter Nordin and Wolfgang Banzhaf Investigating the Generality of Automatically Defined Functions --- Una-May O'Reilly Parallel Genetic Programming: An Application to Trading Models Evolution --- Mouloud Oussaidene, Bastien Chopard, Olivier V. Pictet, and Marco Tomassini Genetic Programming for Image Analysis --- Riccardo Poli Evolving Agents --- Adil Qureshi Genetic Programming for Improved Data Mining: An Application to the Biochemistry of Protein Interactions --- M. L. Raymer, W. F. Punch, E. D. Goodman, and L. A. Kuhn Generality Versus Size in Genetic Programming --- Justinian Rosca Genetic Programming in Database Query Optimization --- Michael Stillger and Myra Spiliopoulou Ontogenetic Programming --- Lee Spector and Kilian Stoffel Using Genetic Programming to Approximate Maximum Clique --- Terence Soule, James A. Foster, and John Dickinson Paragen: A Novel Technique for the Autoparallelisation of Sequential Programs using Genetic Programming --- Paul Walsh and Conor Ryan The Benefits of Computing with Introns --- Mark Wineberg and Franz Oppacher GENETIC PROGRAMMING POSTER PAPERS Co-Evolving Classification Programs using Genetic Programming --- Manu Ahluwalia and Terence C. Fogarty Genetic Programming Tools Available on the Web: A First Encounter --- Anthony G. Deakin and Derek F. Yates Speeding up Genetic Programming: A Parallel BSP Implementation --- Dimitris C. Dracopoulos and Simon Kent Easy Inverse Kinematics using Genetic Programming --- Jonathan Gibbs Noisy Wall-Following and Maze Navigation through Genetic Programming --- Andrew Goldish Genetic Programming for Classification of Brain Tumours from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Biopsy Spectra --- H. F. Gray, R. J. Maxwell, I. Martinez-Perez, C. Arus, and S. Cerdan GP-COM: A Distributed Component-Based Genetic Programming System in C++ --- Christopher Harris and Bernard Buxton Clique Detection via Genetic Programming --- Thomas Haynes and Dale Schoenefeld Functional Languages on Linear Chromosomes --- Paul Holmes and Peter J. Barclay Improving the Accuracy and Robustness of Genetic Programming through Expression Simplification --- Dale Hooper and Nicholas S. Flann COAST: An Approach to Robustness and Reusability in Genetic Programming --- Naohiro Hondo, Hitoshi Iba, and Yukinori Kakazu Recurrences with Fixed Base Cases in Genetic Programming --- Stefan J. Johansson Evolutionary and Incremental Methods to Solve Hard Learning Problems --- Ibrahim Kuscu Detection of Patterns in Radiographs using ANN Designed and Trained with the Genetic Algorithm --- Alejandro Pazos Julian Dorado and Antonino Santos The Logic-Grammars-Based Genetic Programming System --- Man Leung Wong and Kwong Sak Leung LONG GENETIC ALGORITHMS PAPERS Genetic Algorithms with Analytical Solution --- Erol Gelenbe Silicon Evolution --- Adrian Thompson SHORT GENETIC ALGORITHMS PAPERS On Sensor Evolution in Robotics --- Karthik Balakrishnan and Vasant Honavar Testing Software using Order-Based Genetic Algorithms --- Edward B. Boden and Gilford F. Martino Optimizing Local Area Networks Using Genetic Algorithms --- Andy Choi A Genetic Algorithm for the Construction of Small and Highly Testable OKFDD Circuits --- Rold Drechsler, Bernd Becker, and Nicole Gockel Motion Planning and Design of CAM Mechanisms by Means of a Genetic Algorithm --- Rodolfo Faglia and David Vetturi Evolving Strategies Based on the Nearest Neighbor Rule and a Genetic Algorithm --- Matthias Fuchs Recognition and Reconstruction of Visibility Graphs Using a Genetic Algorithm --- Marshall S. Veach GENETIC ALGORITHMS POSTER PAPERS The Use of Genetic Algorithms in the Optimization of Competitive Neural Networks which Resolve the Stuck Vectors Problem --- Tin Ilakovac, Zeljka Perkovic, and Strahil Ristov An Extraction Method of a Car License Plate using a Distributed Genetic Algorithm --- Dae Wook Kim, Sang Kyoon Kim, and Hang Joon Kim EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING AND EVOLUTION STRATEGIES PAPERS Evolving Fractal Movies --- Peter J. Angeline Preliminary Experiments on Discriminating between Chaotic Signals --- David B. Fogel and Lawrence J. Fogel Discovering Patterns in Spatial Data using Evolutionary Programming --- Adam Ghozeil and David B. Fogel Evolving Reduced Parameter Bilinear Models for Time Series Prediction using Fast Evolutionary Programming --- Sathyanarayan S. Rao and Kumar Chellapilla CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS PAPERS Three-Dimensional Shape Optimization Utilizing a Learning Classifier System --- Robert A. Richards and Sheri D. Sheppard Classifier System Renaissance: New Analogies, New Directions --- H. Brown Cribbs III and Robert E. Smith Natural Niching for Cooperative Learning in Classifier Systems --- Jeffrey Horn and David E. Goldberg