About the GPEMjournal blog

This is the editor's blog for the journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. The official web site for the journal, maintained by the publisher (Springer) is here. The GPEMjournal blog is authored and maintained by Lee Spector.

Sunday, February 16, 2014

GPEM 15(1) available online, including the peer commentary special section on Wolfgang Banzhaf’s “genetic programming and emergence”

The 1st issue of volume 15 of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines is now available online. Of particular note, this issue contains the peer commentary special section on Wolfgang Banzhaf’s “genetic programming and emergence.” The full contents are as follows:

"Introduction"
by Lee Spector

"Contrasting meta-learning and hyper-heuristic research: the role of evolutionary algorithms"
by Gisele L. Pappa , Gabriela Ochoa , Matthew R. Hyde , Alex A. Freitas , John Woodward & Jerry Swan

"GP-induced and explicit bloating of the seeds in incremental GP improves evolutionary success"
by Ivan Tanev , Tüze Kuyucu & Katsunori Shimohara

=== Special Section: Peer commentary on Wolfgang Banzhaf’s “genetic programming and emergence”

"Peer commentary on Wolfgang Banzhaf’s “genetic programming and emergence”"
by Lee Spector

"Genetic Programming and Emergence"
by Wolfgang Banzhaf

"Genetic programming: where meaning emerges from program code"
by Krzysztof Krawiec

"Emergence in simulated evolution"
by André Leier

"Emergence in genetic programming"
by Anikó Ekárt

"Mathematics awaits: commentary on “Genetic Programming and Emergence” by Wolfgang Banzhaf"
by Lee Altenberg

"Commentary on “Genetic Programming and Emergence”"
by Moshe Sipper

"A response to “Genetic programming and emergence”"
by David Montana

"Wolfgang Banzhaf: Genetic programming and emergence"
by Peter A. Whigham

"Response to comments on “Genetic Programming and Emergence”"
by Wolfgang Banzhaf

===

Book Review
"Gene I. Sher: Handbook of neuroevolution through Erlang"
by Daniele Loiacono

Book Review
"Anne Auger and Benjamin Doerr (eds): Theory of randomized search heuristics: foundations and recent developments"
by Elena Popovici

"Acknowledgment"
by Lee Spector

Monday, February 3, 2014

Just a quick posting to say the promised discussion of
Wolfgang's “Genetic Programming and Emergence” 
seems to be online:
http://link.springer.com/journal/10710/onlineFirst/page/1
Bill