CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Genetic Programming 1997 Conference (GP-97)
July 13 - 16 (Sunday - Wednesday), 1997
Fairchild Auditorium - Stanford University - Stanford, California
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In cooperation with American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), SIGART, and Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
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WWW FOR GP-97: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~koza/gp97.html
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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.
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INVITED SPEAKERS:
- Susumu Ohno, Ben Horowitz Chair of Distinguished Scientist in Theoretical
Biology, Beckman Research Institute
- David B. Fogel, Natural Selection Inc.
- Ellen Goldberg, President, Santa Fe Institute
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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
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20 TUTORIALS AT GP-97
Sunday July 13 - 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM
--- Genetic Algorithms - David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign
--- Evolvable Hardware - Tetsuya Higuchi - Electrotechnical Laboratory,
Tsukuba,
Japan
--- Program Growth Control in Genetic Programming - Byoung-Tak Zhang, Konkuk
University, Seoul, South Korea and Hitoshi Iba, Electrotechnical Laboratory,
Tsukuba, Japan
--- Introduction to Genetic Programming - John Koza, Stanford University
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Sunday July 13 - 1:00 PM - 3: 15 PM
--- Evolutionary Algorithms for Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits -
Rolf Drechsler - Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany
--- Self-Replicating Systems in Cellular Space Models - Jason Lohn -
Stanford
University
--- Simulated Evolution of Models - Jeanine Graf - University of Dortmund
--- Advanced Genetic Programming - John Koza, Stanford University
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Sunday July 13 - 3:45 PM - 6 PM
--- Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies - David Fogel,
University
of California, San Diego
--- Genetic Programming Representations - Astro Teller - Carnegie Mellon
University
--- Design of Electrical Circuits using Genetic Programming - David Andre
University of California - Berkeley and Forrest H Bennett III - Stanford
University
--- Genetic Programming with Linear Genomes - Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of
Dortmund, Germany
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Tuesday July 15 - 3:25 PM - 5:40 PM
--- Neural Networks - Bernard Widrow, Stanford University
--- Machine Learning - Pat Langley, Institute for the Study of Learning and
Expertise
--- Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists - Russ B. Altman, Stanford
University
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Tuesday July 15 - 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
--- DNA Computing - Russell Deaton and Randy C. Murphy - University of Memphis
--- Evolutionary Robotics - Vasant Honavar - Iowa State University
--- Cellular Programming: Evolution Of Parallel Cellular Machines - Moshe
Sipper
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
--- Machine Language Genetic Programming - Peter Nordin
DaCapo AB, Sweden
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GENERAL CHAIR: John Koza, Stanford University
PUBLICITY CHAIR: Patrick Tufts, Brandeis University
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: David Andre, Forrest H Bennett III, Jason Lohn
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FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE GP-97 CONFERENCE: See the GP-97 home page on
the World Wide Web: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~koza/gp97.html E-
MAIL:  . PHONE: 415-328-3123. FAX: 415-321-4457. The conference
is 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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Hotel information: Numerous local hotels within a short distance of Stanford
University are listed at the GP-97 home page. Because of other events held in
the area during the summer, attendees are urged to make their arrangements for
accomodations early. For your convenience, AAAI has reserved a block of rooms
at the Holiday Inn-Palo Alto Hotel, 625 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA 94301,
Phone: 800-874-3516 or 415-328-2800, FAX: 415-327-7362. Make your
reservations directly with the Holiday Inn before June 28, 1997 for the GP-97
rate rate of $99 single and $109 double. In addition, AAAI has reserved a
block of rooms at the Stanford Terrace Inn, 531 Stanford Avenue, Palo Alto, CA
94306, Phone: 800-729-0332 or 415-857-0333, FAX: 415-857-0343. Make your
reservations directly with the Stanford Terrace Inn before June 11, 1997.
There is a free Stanford University shuttle (called Marguerite) that stops
near both of these hotels (and various other hotels, the train station, and
Palo Alto locations).
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University Housing information: A limited number of spaces are available at
Stanford University housing on a first-come-first-served basis. The final
deadline for University housing applications is June 13, 1997. See the GP-97
WWW home page for a university housing application form.
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TRAVEL INFORMATION: Stanford University is near Palo Alto in Northern
California and is about 40 miles south of San Francisco. Stanford is about 25
miles south of the San Francisco International Airport and about 25 miles
north of San Jose International Airport. Oakland airport is about 45 miles
away. Conventions in America has arranged special GP-97 airline and car
rental discounts. For travel between July 10 - 20, 1997, American Airlines
can save you 5% on lowest applicable fares or 10% off lowest unrestricted coah
fares, with 7-day advance purchases. Some restrictions apply. Hertz is
offering special low conference rates with unlimited free mileage. Please
contact Conventions in America concerning "Group #428" at 1-800-929-4242; or
phone 619-678-3600; or FAX 619-678-3699 or e-mail  you
call American Airlines direct at 800-433-1790, ask for "Index #S9485." If you
call Hertz direct at 800-654-2240, ask for "CV #24250." See the GP-97 WWW
home page for additional details.
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STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: See the GP-97 home page on the World Wide Web:
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~koza/gp97.html. Deadline for
applications is March 19, 1997. See the GP-97 WWW home page for student
travel grant application form.
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AND SILICON VALLEY TOURIST INFORMATION: 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/California/San_Francisco.
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CONTEMPORANEOUS CONFERENCES IN CALIFORNIA AND ELSEWHERE: GP-97 is concurrent
with the 45th Anniversary meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics (SIAM) on July 14-18, 1997 at Stanford University
(http://www.siam.org). GP-97 comes just after the IEEE International
Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA-97)
on July 10 - 11, 1997 in Monterey, California (90 miles from Stanford
University) and the IEEE 8th International Conference on Advanced Robotics
(ICAR-97) on July 5 - 9, 1997 in Monterey
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/space/www/cira97/conference.html. Other
non-California conferences of interest include AAAI-97 on July 27-31, 1997 in
Providence, Rhode Island (http://www.aaai.org/); ICGA-97 on July 20-23, 1997
in East Lansing, Michigan (http://isl.cps.msu.edu/GA/icga97); European
Artificial Life Conference on July 28-31, 1997 in Brighton, England
(http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ecal97/); and IJCAI-97 on August 26-29, 1997 in
Nagoya, Japan (http://www.aaai.org/).
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MEMBERSHIP IN THE ACM, AAAI, or SIAM: For information about ACM membership,
go to http://www.acm.org/; for SIGART, http://sigart.acm.org/; for AAAI
http://www.aaai.org/; and for SIAM, http://www.siam.org. There is a discount
on GP-97 registration fees for members of ACM, SIGART, AAAI, and SIAM.
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ADDRESSES FOR GP-97: GP-97 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:  . WWW FOR AAAI:
http://www.aaai.org/. WWW FOR GP-97: http://www-cs-
faculty.stanford.edu/~koza/gp97.html
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REGISTRATION FORM FOR genetic programming 1997 CONFERENCE
July 13 - 16 (Sunday - Wednesday), 1997 at Stanford University
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your choice, syllabus books for your 5 tutorials, Sunday night welcoming wine
and cheese reception, Monday night conference dinner reception, one copy of a
book of late-breaking papers, the conference T-shirt, 4 box lunches, and
coffee breaks.
Conference proceedings will be mailed to registered attendees with U.S.
mailing addresses via 2-day U.S. priority mail about 1 - 2 weeks prior to the
conference at no extra charge (at addressee's risk). If you are uncertain as
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TUTORIALS: Check off a box for one tutorial from each of the 6 rows:
Sunday July 13 - 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM
--- Genetic Algorithms
--- Evolvable Hardware
--- Program Growth Control in Genetic Programming
--- Introduction to GP
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Sunday July 13 - 1:00 PM - 3: 15 PM
--- Evolutionary Algorithms for Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits
--- Self-Replicating Systems in Cellular Space Models
--- Simulated Evolution of Modelsd
--- Advanced GP
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--- Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies
of California, San Diego
--- Genetic Programming Representations
--- Design of Electrical Circuits using Genetic Programming
--- Genetic Programming with Linear Genomes
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Tuesday July 15 - 3:25 PM - 5:40 PM
--- Neural Networks
--- Machine Learning
--- Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists
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Tuesday July 15 - 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
--- DNA Computinghis
--- Evolutionary Roboticsty
--- Cellular Programming: Evolution Of Parallel Cellular Machines
--- Machine Language Genetic Programming
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No refunds will be made; however, we will transfer your registration to a
person you designate upon notification.
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SEND TO: GP-97 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:  . WWW FOR AAAI: http://www.aaai.org/.
WWW FOR GP-97: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~koza/gp97.html
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GP-97 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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
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
Julian Dorado de la Calle --- University of A Corunha
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
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
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
Sidney R Maxwell III --- Applied Microsystems, Inc
Nicholas Freitag McPhee --- University of Minnesota, Morris
Zbigniew Michalewicz --- University of North Carolina
David Montana --- BBN System and Technologies
Gary Montague --- University of Newcastle
Byung-Ro Moon --- DT Research Lab, LG Semicon Co., Ltd.
Brian Mulloy --- University of Michigan
Peter Nordin --- DaCapo AB, Sweden
Howard Oakley --- Institute of Naval Medicine, UK
Peter C. Olsen --- Department of Defense
Franz Oppacher --- Carleton University, Ottawa
Una-May O`Reilly --- Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT
Mouloud Oussaidene --- Universite de Geneve
Michael Papka --- Argonne National Laboratory
Alejandro Pazos --- University of A Corunha
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
Robert A. Richards --- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Antonino Santos del Riego --- University of A Corunha
Justinian P. Rosca --- University of Rochester
Peter Ross --- University of Edinburgh
Conor Ryan --- University of Limerick, Ireland
Tae-wan Ryu --- University of Houston
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
Siegfried Voessner --- Stanford University
Patrick Tufts --- Brandeis University
Marshall S. Veach --- Stanford University
Thomas Wagner --- Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany
Roger L. Wainwright --- University of Tulsa
Paul Walsh --- University College Cork
Mark Wineberg --- Carleton University
P. A. Whigham --- CSIRO Division of Water Resources, Australia
Darrell Whitley --- Colorado State University
Mark J. Willis --- University of Newcastle, UK
Man Leung Wong --- Hong Kong Baptist University
Yasuo Yonezawa --- Ibaraki University
Byoung-Tak Zhang --- Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea
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