GP-96 Call For Papers

[John Koza]

             FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS (Version 1.0)
              GP-96 - GENETIC PROGRAMMING 96
           July 28 - 31 (Sunday - Wednesday), 1996
                     Fairchild Auditorium
                     Stanford  University
                     Stanford, California

This first genetic programming conference will bring 
together people from the academic world, industry, and 
government who are interested in genetic programming.  
The conference program will include contributed papers, 
tutorials, an invited speaker, and informal meetings.  Topics 
of interest include, but are not limited to, 
- new applications of genetic programming
- theory
- extensions and variations of genetic programming
- parallelization techniques
- mental models, memory, and state
- operator and representation issues
- relations to biology and cognitive systems
- implementation issues
- war stories

Proceedings will be published by The MIT Press. 

HONORARY CHAIR (AND INVITED SPEAKER) 
John Holland, University of Michigan

GENERAL CHAIR 
John Koza, Stanford University

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (In Formation):

- Russell J. Abbott, California State University, Los 
Angeles and The Aerospace Corporation
- David Andre, Stanford University
- Peter J. Angeline, Loral Federal Systems
- Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany
- Samy Bengio, Centre National d'Etudes des 
Telecommunications, France
- Scott Brave, Stanford University
- Walter Cedeno, Primavera Systems Inc.
- Nichael Lynn Cramer, BBN System and Technologies
- Patrik D'haeseleer, University of New Mexico
- Bertrand Daniel Dunay, System Dynamics International
- Frederic Gruau, Stanford University
- Richard J. Hampo, Ford Motor Company
- Simon Handley, Stanford University
- Hitoshi Hemmi, ATR,  Kyoto, Japan
- Thomas Huang, University of Illinois
- Hitoshi Iba, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan
- Martin A. Keane, Econometrics Inc.
- Mike Keith, Allen Bradely Controls
- Kenneth Marko, Ford Motor Company
- Kenneth E. Kinnear, Jr., Adaptive Computing Technology
- W. B. Langdon, University College, London
- Martin C. Martin, Carnegie Mellon University
- Sidney R Maxwell III
- David Montana, BBN System and Technologies
- Dr. Heinz Muehlenbein, GMD Research Center, Germany
- 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
- 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
- Patrick Tufts, Brandeis University
- V. Rao Vemuri, University of Califonia at Davis
- Darrell Whitley, Colorado State University
- Alden H. Wright, University of Montana
- Byoung-Tak Zhang, GMD, Germany

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF PROGRAM 
COMMITTEE 
(In Formation) 

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 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

- CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS: 
Rick Riolo, University of Michigan

- EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING: 
David Fogel, University of California at San Diego
- EVOLUTION STRATEGIES: 
PROPOSALS HEREBY SOLICITED

TUTORIALS
Tutorials will overview (1) genetic programming, (2) 
closely related areas of evolutionary computation, and (3) 
neural networks, machine learning, and introductory 
molecular biology.   Most tutorials will be on Sunday, July 
28, 1996 and specific times and dates will be announced 
later.  

- INTRODUCTION TO GENETIC PROGRAMMING:
John Koza, Stanford University

- MACHINE LANGUAGE GENETIC PROGRAMMING:
Peter Nordin, University of Dortmund, Germany

- GENETIC PROGRAMMING USING BINARY 
REPRESENTATION:
Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany

- GENETIC ALGORITHMS:
David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois

- EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING: 
David Fogel, University of California at San Diego

- EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION FOR 
CONSTRAINT OPTIMIZATION:
Zbigniew Michalewicz, University of North Carolina

- CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS:
Robert Elliott Smith, University of Alabama

- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY FOR COMPUTER 
SCIENTISTS:
Russell B. Altman, Stanford University

-NEURAL NETWORKS
David E. Rumelhart, Stanford University

- MACHINE LEARNING:
Pat Langley, Stanford University

- OTHER GENETIC PROGRAMMING TUTORIALS:
PROPOSALS HEREBY SOLICITED

INFORMATION  FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS:
Wednesday, January 10, 1996 is the deadline for receipt at 
the address below of seven (7) copies of each submitted 
paper.   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.   Two-sided printing 
is preferred.  Papers are to contain ALL of the following 9 
items within a maximum of 10 pages, in this order: (1) title 
of paper, (2) author name(s), (3) author physical 
address(es), (4) author e-mail address(es), (5) author phone 
number(s), (6) a 100-200 word abstract of the paper, (7) the 
paper's category (chosen from one of the following five 
alternatives: genetic programming, genetic algorithms, 
classifier systems, evolutionary programming, or evolution 
strategy), (8) the text of the paper (including all figures and 
tables),  and (9) bibliography.  All other elements of the 
paper (e.g., acknowledgements, 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 author (or other 
designated author) will be notified of acceptance or 
rejection and reviewer comments by approximately 
Monday, February 26, 1996.  Details of the style of the 
camera-ready paper will be announced later, but will 
resemble the SAB-94 and ALIFE-94 conferences recently 
published by the MIT Press.   The deadline for the camera-
ready, revised version of accepted papers will be 
announced later but will be approximately Wednesday, 
March 20, 1996.  Proceedings will be published by The 
MIT Press and will be available at the conference.  One of 
the authors will be expected to present each accepted paper 
at the conference.   

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.  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).   An 
optional housing and meals package will be available from 
the Conference Department at Stanford and will be 
announced later.   

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
E-mail:  GP96 at Cs.Stanford.Edu

GP-96 Conference
c/o John Koza
Computer Science Department
Margaret Jacks Hall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2140 USA