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How Genetic Programming (GP) Works

Genetic programming starts with a primordial ooze of thousands of randomly created computer programs. This population of programs is progressively evolved over a series of generations. The evolutionary search uses the Darwinian principle of natural selection (survival of the fittest) and analogs of various naturally occurring operations, including crossover (sexual recombination), mutation, gene duplication, gene deletion. Genetic programming sometimes also employs developmental processes by which an embryo grows into fully developed organism. Old Chinese saying says “animated gif is worth one mega-word,” so click here for short tutorial of “What is GP?” including about two dozen animated gifs. This short tutorial contains a discussion of the preparatory steps of a run of genetic programming, the executional steps (that is, the flowchart of genetic programming), an illustrative simple run of genetic programming for a problem of symbolic regression of a quadratic polynomial, a discussion of developmental genetic programming for the automatic synthesis of both the topology and sizing of analog electrical circuits (potentially also including placement and routing), and the use of a turtle to draw complex structures (such as antenna). In addition, genetic programming can automatically create, in a single run, a general (parameterized) solution to a problem in the form of a graphical structure whose nodes or edges represent components and where the parameter values of the components are specified by mathematical expressions containing free variables. That is, genetic programming can automatically create a general solution to a problem in the form of a parameterized topology.

Information about the Field of Genetic Programming (GP) and the Field of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GEC)

The technique of genetic programming (GP) is one of the techniques of the field of genetic and evolutionary computation (GEC) which, in turn, includes techniques such as genetic algorithms (GA), evolution strategies (ES), evolutionary programming (EP), grammatical evolution (GE), and machine code (linear genome) genetic programming. 16 authored books, 4 videos, and 4 edited books on genetic programming (GP), including 6 books in the Genetic Programming Book series from Kluwer Academic Publishers (as part of the bigger list of 73 authored books, 32 edited books, and 4 videos on genetic and evolutionary computation). 17 conference proceedings books on genetic programming (GP), including the 3 annual GP conferences, 5 annual GECCO conferences (that now include the annual GP conference), 6 annual Euro-GP conferences, the 2003 Genetic Programming Theory and Practice workshop (GPTA), the 1995 AAAI Symposium on Genetic Programming, and the 1995 Workshop on Genetic Programming (as part of a bigger list of 99 conference proceedings books on evolutionary computation). 3,440 published papers on genetic programming (as of November 28, 2003) in a searchable bibliography (with many on-line versions of papers) by over 880 authors maintained by William Langdon’s and Steven M. Gustafson Over 4,000 published papers on evolutionary computation in a searchable bibliography maintained by Karsten Weicker and Nicole Weicker containing entries on genetic and evolutionary computation and related areas (e.g. artificial life). About two dozen conferences with Published Proceedings that are held regularly in the field of genetic programming and genetic and evolutionary computation (GEC) $5,000 in 2004 awards for human-competitive results (based on presentations at the GECCO-2004 conference in Seattle on June 27, 2004). $10,000 in 2005 awards for human-competitive results (deadline for entry: June 20, 2005) E-Mail Mailing List on Genetic Programming, the EC-Digest (formerly the GA-Digest), and other mailing lists. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines journal (published by Kluwer Academic Publishers and edited by Wolfgang Banzhaf) (started January 2000). This journal is available as part of membership in the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC) Evolutionary Computation journal (published by The MIT Press and edited by Marc Schoenauer). This journal is available as part of membership in International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC) IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation journal (published by IEEE Neural Network Society and edited by Xin Yao) Software for genetic programming, genetic algorithms, and other evolutionary computation techniques, including the "Little LISP" Computer Code for Genetic Programming as Contained in 1992 book Genetic Programming (Koza 1992) 37 completed Ph.D. theses on genetic programming 58 students working on thesis involving genetic programming A partial list of people compiled by Bill Langdon who are active in genetic programming 

Conferences about Genetic Programming (GP) and Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GEC)

About two dozen conferences (in addition to those below) with Published Proceedings that are held regularly in the field of genetic programming and genetic and evolutionary computation (GEC) Annual 2005 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference to be held on June 25–29, 2005 (Saturday – Wednesday) in Washington DC. GECCO is the largest conference in the field of genetic and evolutionary computation. The GECCO-2005 conference is a combination of the 10th annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP-2005) and the 14th International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA-2005). GECCO is operated by the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC). Annual 2005 Euro-Genetic-Programming Conference (and the co-located Evolutionary Combinatorial Optimization conference and other Evo-Net workshops) to be held on March 30 – April 1, 2005 (Wednesday-Friday) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice (GPTP) workshops at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2003 and 2004 and 2005 Genetic Programming Theory and Practice (GPTP) workshop to be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor 2004 Asia-Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming (ASPGP) held in Cairns, Australia on December 6-7 (Monday-Tuesday), 2004 NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware (EH) to be held on June 24 – 26 (Thursday – Saturday), 2004 in Seattle.

Past GP conferences for 1996, 1997, and 1998 (including the SGA-98, the Symposium on Genetic Algorithms) Past Euro-GP conferences for 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 Past GECCO conferences (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conferences) for 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004. Starting in 1999, the annual GECCO conference includes the annual Genetic Programming Conference