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.

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

EvoStar panel on open-access publishing

Of possible interest to GPEM-affiliated folks who will be attending EvoStar:

Jacqueline Heinerman has organized a lunchtime panel discussion session on Wednesday, on the topic of open access publishing, which will be sponsored by NWO, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. Panel speakers will include Ronan Nugent from Springer, Emma Hart (editor of ECJ), and a representative of the VU university library.

h/t Jennifer Willies and James McDermott for the notice.

Monday, March 6, 2017

GPEM 18(1) is available

The first issue of Volume 18 of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines is now available for download.

This is a special issue on Genetic Improvement, edited by Justyna Petke, and it also contains three book reviews.

The complete contents are:

"Editorial introduction"
by Lee Spector Pages 1-2

"Preface to the Special Issue on Genetic Improvement"
by Justyna Petke

"Genetic improvement of GPU software"
by William B. Langdon, Brian Yee Hong Lam, Marc Modat, Justyna Petke, and Mark Harman

"Trading between quality and non-functional properties of median filter in embedded systems"
by Zdenek Vasicek and Vojtech Mrazek

"Online Genetic Improvement on the java virtual machine with ECSELR"
by Kwaku Yeboah-Antwi and Benoit Baudry

BOOK REVIEW
"Krzysztof Krawiec: Behavioral program synthesis with genetic programming" by Raja Muhammad Atif Azad

BOOK REVIEW
"Paul Rendell: Turing machine universality of the Game of Life"
by Moshe Sipper

BOOK REVIEW
"James Keller, Derong Liu, and David Fogel: Fundamentals of computational intelligence: neural networks, fuzzy systems, and evolutionary computation" by Steven Michael Corns

"Acknowledgment to Reviewers"
by L. Spector