GPEM 18(3) is available, with a peer commentary special section

The third issue of Volume 18 of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines is now available for download. Along with two regular articles and a book review, it contains a peer commentary special section, with a target article by Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick, and James Maclaurin, seven commentaries, and a response by the target article authors. The special section is also available as a "topical collection" with its own page here.

GPEM 18(3) contains:

A univariate marginal distribution algorithm based on extreme elitism and its application to the robotic inverse displacement problem
by Shujun Gao & Clarence W. de Silva

A closed asynchronous dynamic model of cellular learning automata and its application to peer-to-peer networks
by Ali Mohammad Saghiri & Mohammad Reza Meybodi

Introduction to the peer commentary special section on “On the Mapping of Genotype to Phenotype in Evolutionary Algorithms” by Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick, and James Maclaurin
by Lee Spector

On the mapping of genotype to phenotype in evolutionary algorithms
by Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick & James Maclaurin

Probing the axioms of evolutionary algorithm design: Commentary on “On the mapping of genotype to phenotype in evolutionary algorithms” by Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick, and James Maclaurin
by Lee Altenberg

Genotype–phenotype mapping implications for genetic programming representation: Commentary on “On the mapping of genotype to phenotype in evolutionary algorithms” by Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick, and James Maclaurin
by Anikó Ekárt & Peter R. Lewis

Evolutionary algorithms and synthetic biology for directed evolution: commentary on “on the mapping of genotype to phenotype in evolutionary algorithms” by Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick, and James Maclaurin
by Douglas B. Kell

Distilling the salient features of natural systems: Commentary on “On the mapping of genotype to phenotype in evolutionary algorithms” by Whigham, Dick and Maclaurin
by Michael O’Neill & Miguel Nicolau

A rebuttal to Whigham, Dick, and Maclaurin by one of the inventors of Grammatical Evolution: Commentary on “On the Mapping of Genotype to Phenotype in Evolutionary Algorithms” by Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick, and James Maclaurin
by Conor Ryan

(Over-)Realism in evolutionary computation: Commentary on “On the Mapping of Genotype to Phenotype in Evolutionary Algorithms” by Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick, and James Maclaurin
by G. Squillero & A. Tonda

Taking “biology” just seriously enough: Commentary on “On the Mapping of Genotype to Phenotype in Evolutionary Algorithms” by Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick, and James Maclaurin
by James A. Foster

Just because it works: a response to comments on “On the Mapping of Genotype to Phenotype in Evolutionary Algorithms”
by Peter A. Whigham, Grant Dick & James Maclaurin

BOOK REVIEW
Sebastian Ventura and Jose Maria Luna: Pattern mining with evolutionary algorithms
by Bing Xue