Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines

Saturday, July 3, 2010

GPEM 11:3/4, Anniversary Special Issue, FREE for a limited time

I am pleased to announce that the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines "Tenth Anniversary Issue: Progress in Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines," edited by Julian Miller and Riccardo Poli, is now available online.

This is a really nice special issue containing some excellent summaries of the state of the field and directions in which it is expected to move in the near future.

I am also happy to announce that the entire issue is FREE online for the month of July, 2010. In addition, two of the issue's articles (the one by Koza and the one by Langdon Gustafson) are published under Open Access and will therefore be free forever.

The articles in this issue are:

"Editorial to tenth anniversary issue on progress in genetic programming and evolvable machines"

by Julian F. Miller and Riccardo Poli

"Human-competitive results produced by genetic programming"

by John R. Koza

"Theoretical results in genetic programming: the next ten years?"

by Riccardo Poli, Leonardo Vanneschi, William B. Langdon and Nicholas Freitag McPhee

"Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines: ten years of reviews"

by W. B. Langdon and S. M. Gustafson

"Open issues in genetic programming"

by Michael O’Neill, Leonardo Vanneschi, Steven Gustafson and Wolfgang Banzhaf

"Grammar-based Genetic Programming: a survey"

by Robert I. McKay, Nguyen Xuan Hoai, Peter Alexander Whigham, Yin Shan and Michael O’Neill

"Developments in Cartesian Genetic Programming: self-modifying CGP"

by Simon Harding, Julian F. Miller and Wolfgang Banzhaf

Book Review (not part of the special issue per se): "Dario Floreano and Claudio Mattiussi (eds): Bio-inspired artificial intelligence: theories, methods, and technologies"

by Ivan Garibay

"Guest editorial: special issue on parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms, part two"

by Marco Tomassini and Leonardo Vanneschi

"An ensemble-based evolutionary framework for coping with distributed intrusion detection"

by Gianluigi Folino, Clara Pizzuti and Giandomenico Spezzano

"Deployment of parallel linear genetic programming using GPUs on PC and video game console platforms"

by Garnett Wilson and Wolfgang Banzhaf

"Simdist: a distribution system for easy parallelization of evolutionary computation"

by Boye Annfelt Høverstad

"Variable population size and evolution acceleration: a case study with a parallel evolutionary algorithm"

by Ting Hu, Simon Harding and Wolfgang Banzhaf

"EvAg: a scalable peer-to-peer evolutionary algorithm"

by J. L. J. Laredo, A. E. Eiben, M. van Steen and J. J. Merelo

Thursday, June 24, 2010

GPEM impact factor!

I am very pleased to announce that Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines has received its first official impact factor, of 1.091. We are ranked by ISI in the Artificial Intelligence category as 66th out of 102 journals, and in the Computer Science Theory and Methods category as 47th out of 91 journals. Considering our youth and the fact that this is our first ranking I think that this is quite strong.

Thursday, May 27, 2010

SIGEVOlution Volume 5, Issue 1, is now available

The SIGEVOlution newsletter Volume 5 Issue 1 is now available for download from: http://www.sigevolution.org

The new issue features:

EC Testing of Embedded Systems by Peter M. Kruse, Joachim Wegener
and Stefan Wappler
Competitions @ GECCO-2010 by Christian Gagné
Events reports: NICSO-2010 by David Pelta
Dissertation Corner
New issues of journals
Calls and calendar

The newsletter is intended to be viewed electronically.

Thanks to Pier Luca Lanzi, SIGEvolution Editor-in-Chief.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

CFP: Special Issue on Evolvable Hardware Challenges

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Evolvable Hardware Challenges

Journal: Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (pub. by Springer)

Guest Editor: Pauline C. Haddow, Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology

Editor-in-Chief: Lee Spector, Hampshire College

Evolvable Hardware, the application of evolutionary techniques as hardware design techniques, is still in its infancy despite a 15 year lifespan. After the initial excitement in the late 1990s there have been many successes but perhaps not at the rate or to the extent of the original expectations. There are many challenges inherent in Evolvable Hardware that are currently being addressed or need to be addressed so as to unlock the true potential of the field. Such work, together with research on real world applications, will lead to a clearer definition of the field and thus pave a future path for Evolvable Hardware. The aim of this special issue is to provide the reader with contributions that we feel provide strong contributions towards this goal.

Two articles by leading researchers have already been commissioned:

- The Evolution of Standard Cell Libraries for Future Technology Nodes

James Walker, James Hilder & Andy Tyrrell

- An Evolved Anti-Jamming Antenna Beamforming Network

Jason Lohn, Derek Linden & Jonathan Becker

== Open submissions

We encourage submission of high quality papers, both theoretical and practical, describing newer approaches that address key challenges facing Evolvable Hardware today. Application papers that illustrate that Evolvable Hardware can achieve results that are challenging for today’s more traditional hardware design techniques are also sought. In addition, we are interested in contributions that address the computational design challenge in tomorrow’s technologies through the application of bio-inspired techniques. Subjects will include (but are not limited to):

- Evolvable hardware design

- Adaptive hardware

- Evolutionary robotics

- Formal models of bio-inspired hardware

- Generative and developmental approaches

- Real-world applications of evolvable hardware

- Bio-inspired computation on future technology

We encourage all prospective authors to contact the guest editor, at the address below, as early as possible to indicate your intention to submit a paper to this special issue.

Guest Editor:

Pauline C. Haddow pauline@idi.ntnu.no

Dept. of Computer and Information Science

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals.

Manuscripts should be submitted to: http://GENP.edmgr.com. Choose "Evolvable Hardware" as the article type when submitting.

Springer offers authors, editors and reviewers of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines a web-enabled online manuscript submission and review system. Our online system offers authors the ability to track the review process of their manuscript with straightforward log-in and submission procedures, and it supports a wide range of submission file formats.

== Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: Sept, 1, 2010

Notification of acceptance: Oct 8, 2010

Final manuscript: Oct 29, 2010

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Evolutionary computation in Communications of the ACM

The latest Communications of the ACM includes an article on "Automatic Program Repair with Evolutionary Computation" by Westley Weimer, Stephanie Forrest, Claire Le Goues, and ThanhVu Nguyen. This article is based on very nice work which, as noted last summer on this blog, won the top prize in the Human-Competitive Results Competition (the "Humies") at GECCO-2009.

(Hat tip to Bill Langdon.)

Friday, May 21, 2010

#gptp on twitter

Interesting presentations and discussions taking place at the Genetic Programming Theory and Practice workshop in Ann Arbor, and a couple of people are tweeting highlights. Search for #gptp at twitter.com to see what has been going on.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

GPEM 11(2) now available online

The second issue of volume 11 of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines is now available online. This is Part 2 of the special issue on parallel and distributed evolutionary algorithms, and it contains the following articles: