CFP: Genetic Programming 1996 Conference (GP-96)

John Koza koza at CS.Stanford.EDU
Thu Nov 16 09:44:51 EST 1995


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Paper Submission Deadline: January 10, 1996 (Wednesday)
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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

Proceedings will be published by The MIT Press

In cooperation with the Association for Computing 
Machinery (ACM), SIGART, the IEEE Neural Network 
Council, and the American Association for Artificial 
Intelligence.

Genetic programming is a domain-independent method for 
evolving computer programs that solve, or approximately 
solve, problems.  Starting with a primordial ooze of 
thousands of randomly created 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 genetic programming 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, and relations to biology 
and cognitive systems.  
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HONORARY CHAIR: John Holland, University of 
Michigan
INVITED SPEAKERS: John Holland, University of 
Michigan and David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois 
GENERAL CHAIR: John Koza, Stanford University
PUBLICITY CHAIR: Patrick Tufts, Brandeis University
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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
- CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS: Rick Riolo, University of 
Michigan
- EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING AND 
EVOLUTION 
STRATEGIES: David Fogel, University of California, San 
Diego, California
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TUTORIALS
-Sunday July 28  9:15 AM - 11:30 AM 
- Genetic Algorithms - David E. Goldberg, University of 
Illinois
- Machine Language Genetic Programming - Peter Nordin, 
University of Dortmund, Germany
- Genetic Programming using Mathematica P Robert 
Nachbar P Merck Research Laboratories
- Introduction to Genetic Programming - John Koza, 
Stanford University
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Sunday July 28 1:00 PM - 3: 15 PM
- 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
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Sunday July 28  3:45 PM - 6 PM
- Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies - 
David Fogel, University of California, San Diego
- Cellular Encoding P 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
-JECHO - Terry Jones, Santa Fe Institute
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Tuesday July 30 - 3 PM - 5:15PM
- Neural Networks - David E. Rumelhart, Stanford 
University
- Machine Learning - Pat Langley, Stanford University
-JMolecular Biology for Computer Scientists - Russ B. 
Altman, Stanford University
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INFORMATION  FOR SUBMITTING PAPERS
The deadline for receipt at the physical mail address below 
of seven (7) copies of each submitted paper is Wednesday, 
January 10, 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: (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 strategies), (8) the 
text of the paper (including all figures and tables),  and (9) 
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 
the MIT Press.  Depending on the number, subject, and 
content of the submitted papers, the program committee 
may decide to allocate different number 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.  
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FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE GP-96 
CONFERENCE:  
On the World Wide Web: 
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~zippy/gp-96.html 
or via e-mail at gp at aaai.org.  
Conference operated by Genetic Programming 
Conferences, Inc. (a California not-for-profit corporation).  
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FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT GENETIC 
PROGRAMMING IN GENERAL:  
http://www-cs-
faculty.stanford.edu/~koza/. 
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FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT DISCOUNTED 
TRAVEL :  
For further information regarding special GP-96 airline and 
car rental rates, please contact Conventions in America at 
e-mail flycia at balboa.com; or phone 1-800-929-4242; or 
phone 619-678-3600; or FAX 619-678-3699.  
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FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE SAN 
FRANCISCO BAY AREA AND SILICON VALLEY 
AREA SIGHTS: 
Try the Stanford University home page at 
http://www.stanford.edu/, the Hyperion Guide at 
http://www.hyperion.com/ba/sfbay.html; the Palo Alto 
weekly at http://www.service.com/PAW/home.html; the 
California Virtual Tourist at 
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/virtual-
tourist/California.html; and the Yahoo Guide of San 
Francisco at 
http://www.yahoo.com/Regional_Information/States/Califo
rnia/San_Francisco.  
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FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT 
CONTEMPORANEOUS WEST COAST 
CONFERENCES:  
Information about the AAAI-96 conference on August 4 P 
8 (Sunday P Thursday), 1996, in Portland, Oregon can be 
found at http://www.aaai.org/.  For information on the 
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and 
Data Mining (KDD-96) in Portland, Oregon, on August 3-
5, 1996: http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/kdd96.  Information 
about the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA) 
workshop on August 3 P 5 (Saturday P Monday), 1996, in 
San Diego, California can be found at 
http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/foga/ or by contacting 
belew at cs.wisc.edu.  
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FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MEMBERSHIP 
IN THE ACM, AAAI, or IEEE:  
For information about ACM membership, try 
http://www.acm.org/; for information about SIGART, try 
http://sigart.acm.org/; for AAAI membership, go to 
http://www.aaai.org/; and for membership in the IEEE 
Computer Society, go to http://www.computer.org. 
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PHYSICAL MAIL ADDRESS FOR GP-96: 
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.  
WWW: http://www.aaai.org/.  
E-MAIL:   gp at aaai.org. 
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REGISTRATION FORM FOR GENETIC 
PROGRAMMING 1996 CONFERENCE TO BE HELD 
ON JULY 28 P 31, 1996 AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY
First Name _________________________ 

Last Name_______________

Affiliation________________________________

Address__________________________________

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City__________________________ 

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E-Mail address_____________________________

Conference registration fee includes copy of proceedings, 
attendance at 4 tutorials of your choice, syllabus books for 
4 tutorials, conference reception, and admission to 
conference.  Students must send legible proof of full-time 
student status. 

Conference proceedings will be mailed to registered 
attendees with U.S. mailing addresses via 2-day U.S. 
priority mail 1 P 2 weeks prior to the conference at no extra 
charge (at addressee's risk).  If you are uncertain as to 
whether you will be at that address at that time or DO NOT 
WANT YOUR PROCEEDINGS MAILED to you at the 
above address for any other reason, your copy of the 
proceedings will be held for you at the conference 
registration desk if you CHECK HERE   ____.    

Postmarked by May 15, 1996:
Student P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member	$195
Regular P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member	$395
Student P Non-member	$215
Regular P  Non-member	$415

Postmarked by  June 26, 1996:
Student P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member	$245
Regular P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member	$445
Student P Non-member	$265
Regular P  Non-member	$465

Postmarked later or on-site:
Student P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member	$295
Regular P ACM, IEEE, or AAAI Member	$495
Student P Non-member	$315
Regular P  Non-member	$515

Member number:  
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Total fee (enter appropriate amount) $ _________

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TUTORIALS:  Check off a box for one tutorial from each 
of the 4 columns:  

Sunday July 28, 1996 P 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM
__ Genetic Algorithms
__ Machine Language GP
__ GP using Mathematica
__ Introductory GP

Sunday July 28, 1996 P 1:00 PM - 3: 15 PM
__ Classifier Systems
__ EC for Constraint Optimization
__ Advanced GP

Sunday July 28, 1996 P 3:45 PM - 6 PM
__ Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies
__ Cellular Encoding
__ GP with Linear Genomes
__ ECHO

Tuesday July 30, 1996 P3:00 PM - 5:15PM
__ Neural Networks
__ Machine Learning
__ Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists

__  Check here for information about housing and meal 
package at Stanford 
University.
__  Check here for information on student travel grants.

No refunds will be made; however, we will transfer your 
registration to a 
person you designate upon notification.  

SEND TO:  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.  E-MAIL: gp at aaai.org.  
WWW: http://www.aaai.org/.  
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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
Jason Daida	University of Michigan
Patrik D'haeseleer	University of New Mexico
Marco Dorigo	Universite' 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 P  Francone & 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	Department of Economics, 
University of Santiago
Martin A. Keane	Econometrics Inc. 
Mike Keith	Allen Bradley Controls
Maarten Keijzer	
Kenneth E. Kinnear, Jr. 	Adaptive Computing Technology
W. B. Langdon	University College, London
David Levine	Argonne National Laboratory
Kenneth Marko	Ford Motor Company
Martin C. Martin	Carnegie Mellon University
Sidney R Maxwell III	
Nicholas Freitag McPhee	University of Minnesota, 
Morris
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, UK
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, UK
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



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