In cooperation with American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), SIGART, and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Russell J. Abbott --- California State Univ. LA, and The Aerospace Corp. Hojjat Adeli --- Ohio State University Enrique Alba --- University de Malaga Dennis Allison --- Stanford University Lee Altenberg --- Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology Peter Angeline, Lockheed Martin Karthik Balakrishnan --- Iowa State University Wolfgang Banzhaf --- University of Dortmund, Germany Rik Belew --- University of California at San Diego Tommaso F. Bersano-Begey --- University of Michigan Tobias Blickle --- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Edward B. Boden --- IBM Rochester Scott Brave --- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wilker Shane Bruce --- Nova Southeastern University Bill P. Buckles --- Tulane University Shu-Heng Chen --- National Chengchi University, Taiwan Bastien Chopard --- CUI, University of Geneva H. Brown Cribbs, III --- University of Alabama Mark J. Crosbie --- Hewlett-Packard Jason Daida --- University of Michigan Anthony Deakin --- University of Liverpool Judith E Devaney --- NIST Hugo de Garis --- ATR, Kyoto, Japan Julian Dorado de la Calle --- University of A Corunha Marco Dorigo --- Universite' Libre de Bruxelles Dimitris C. Dracopoulos --- Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon Rolf Drechsler --- University of Freiburg, Germany Bertrand Daniel Dunay --- System Dynamics International Garett Dworman --- The Wharton School Andrew N. Edmonds --- Science in Finance Ltd., UK H.H. Ehrenburg --- CWI, The Netherlands Rodolfo Faglia --- Universit di Brescia, Italy Gabriel J. Ferrer --- University of Virginia Nicholas Flann --- Utah State University Terry Fogarty --- Napier University James A. Foster --- University of Idaho Frank D. Francone --- FRISEC Adam P. Fraser --- University of Salford Matthias Fuchs --- University of Kaiserslautern Alex S. Fukunaga --- Jet Propulsion Lab, California Inst. of Tech Chris Gathercole --- University of Edinburgh Erol Gelenbe --- Duke University Jonathan Gibbs --- University of California, Santa Cruz Erik D. Goodman --- Michigan State University Frederic Gruau --- CWI Amsterdam and COGS Sussex University Richard Hampo --- Ford Research Laboratory Simon Handley --- Stanford University Thomas D. Haynes --- University of Tulsa Hitoshi Hemmi --- ATR, Kyoto, Japan Hugo G Hiden --- Newcastle University Vasant Honavar --- Iowa State University Brian Howley --- Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Lorenz Huelsbergen --- Lucent Technologies Hitoshi Iba --- Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan Christian Jacob --- University of Erlangen, Germany Hugues Juille --- Brandeis University Martin A. Keane --- Econometrics Maarten Keijzer --- Cap Volmac, Adaptive Systems bv. Robert E. Keller --- Dortmund University Simon Kent --- Brunel University Steven O. Kimbrough --- University of Pennsylvania Masayuki Kimura --- Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Leslie A.Kuhn --- Michigan State University Ibrahim Kuscu --- University of Sussex James D. Laing --- The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania W. B. Langdon --- University of Birmingham K.S. Leung --- Chinese University of Hong Kong David Levine --- The Boeing Company Sean Luke --- University of Maryland at College Park Nicholas Freitag McPhee --- University of Minnesota, Morris Sidney R Maxwell III --- Applied Microsystems, Inc Zbigniew Michalewicz --- University of North Carolina Gary Montague --- University of Newcastle David Montana --- BBN System and Technologies Byung-Ro Moon --- DT Research Lab, LG Semicon Co., Ltd. Brian Mulloy --- University of Michigan Robert B. Nachbar --- Merck Research Laboratories Peter Nordin --- DaCapo AB, Sweden Howard Oakley --- Institute of Naval Medicine, UK Peter C. Olsen --- Department of Defense Franz Oppacher --- Carleton University, Ottawa Mouloud Oussaidene --- Universite de Geneve Michael Papka --- Argonne National Laboratory Alejandro Pazos --- University of A Corunha Timothy Perkis --- Interval Research Corporation Frederick Petry --- Tulane University Riccardo Poli --- University of Birmingham Carlos Cotta Porras --- University of Malaga Bill Punch --- Michigan State University Adil Qureshi --- University College London Simon Raik --- Monash University Una-May O`Reilly --- Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT Robert A. Richards --- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Justinian P. Rosca --- University of Rochester Peter Ross --- University of Edinburgh Conor Ryan --- University of Limerick, Ireland Tae-wan Ryu --- University of Houston Antonino Santos del Riego --- University of A Corunha Yuji Sato --- HitachiCentral Reseach Laboratories Robert Savit --- University of Michigan Dale A. Schoenefeld --- University of Tulsa Gregory Seront --- Universite Libre de Bruxelles Eric V. Siegel --- Columbia University Terence Soule --- University of Idaho Kilian Stoffel --- University of Maryland Walter Alden Tackett --- Neuromedia Astro Teller --- Carnegie Mellon University Adrian Thompson --- University of Sussex, UK Marco Tomassini --- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Patrick Tufts --- Brandeis University Marshall S. Veach --- Stanford University Siegfried Voessner --- Stanford University Thomas Wagner --- Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany Roger L. Wainwright --- University of Tulsa Paul Walsh --- University College Cork P. A. Whigham --- CSIRO Division of Water Resources, Australia Darrell Whitley --- Colorado State University Mark J. Willis --- University of Newcastle, UK Mark Wineberg --- Carleton University Man Leung Wong --- Hong Kong Baptist University Yasuo Yonezawa --- Ibaraki University Byoung-Tak Zhang --- Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
Genetic programming is an automatic programming technique for evolving computer programs that solve (or approximately solve) problems. Starting with a primordial ooze of thousands of randomly created computer programs, a population of programs is progressively evolved over many generations using the Darwinian principle of survival of the fittest, a sexual recombination operation, and occasional mutation.
The first annual genetic programming conference in 1996 featured 15 tutorials, 2 invited speakers, 3 parallel tracks, 73 papers, and 17 poster papers in proceedings book, and 27 late-breaking papers in a separate book distributed to conference attendees, and 288 attendees. A description of GP-96 appears in the October 1996 issue of Scientific American (http://www.sciam.com/WEB/1096issue/1096techbus3.html). This second annual conference in 1997 reflects the rapid growth of this field in which over 600 technical papers have been published since 1992. For August 5, 1996 article in E. E. Times on GP-96 conference and August 12, 1996 article in E. E Times on John Holland's invited speech at GP-96, go to http://www.techweb.com/search/search.html
Topics at the Second Annual Genetic Programming Conference to be held on July 13 - 16 (Sunday - Wednesday), 1997 at Stanford University include, but are not limited to, applications of genetic programming, theoretical foundations of genetic programming, implementation issues, technique extensions, cellular encoding, evolvable hardware, evolvable machine language programs, automated evolution of program architecture, evolution and use of mental models, automatic programming of multi-agent strategies, distributed artificial intelligence, auto-parallelization of algorithms, automated circuit synthesis, automatic programming of cellular automata, induction, system identification, control, automated design, data and image compression, image analysis, pattern recognition, molecular biology applications, grammar induction, and parallelization. Papers describing recent developments are also solicited in the following additional areas: genetic algorithms, classifier systems, evolutionary programming and evolution strategies, artificial life and evolutionary robotics, DNA computing, and evolvable hardware.
INVITED SPEAKERS: Ellen Goldberg, President, Santa Fe Institute Susumu Ohno, Ben Horowitz Chair of Distinguished Scientist in Theoretical Biology, Beckman Research Institute David B. Fogel, Chief Scientist, Natural Selection Inc., La Jolla, California and Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation _______________________________________________________________________ SPECIAL PROGRAM CHAIRS The main focus of the conference (and most of the papers) will be on genetic programming. In addition, papers describing recent developments in the closely related areas will be reviewed and selected by special program committees appointed and supervised by the following special program chairs. ___ Genetic Algorithms: Kalyanmoy Deb, Indian Inst of Tech - Kanpur, India ___ Classifier Systems: Rick L. Riolo, University of Michigan ___ Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies: David B. Fogel, Natural Selection Inc, San Diego ___ Artificial Life and Evolutionary Robotics: Marco Dorigo, Universite Libre de Bruxelles ___ DNA Computing: Max Garzon, University of Memphis ___ Evolvable Hardware: Hitoshi Iba, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan _______________________________________________________________________
GENERAL CHAIR: John Koza, Stanford University PUBLICITY CHAIR: Patrick Tufts, Brandeis University EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: David Andre, Forrest H Bennett III, Jason Lohn
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE GP-97 CONFERENCE: See the GP-97 home page on the World Wide Web: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/gp-97.html. E-MAIL: gp@aaai.org. PHONE: 415-328-3123. FAX: 415-321-4457. The conference is operated by Genetic Programming Conferences, Inc. (a California not-for- profit corporation).