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Tutorial
Professor Riccardo Poli is a professor in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Essex where he founded the Natural and Evolutionary Computation (NEC) group. Previously at the School of Computer Science of the University of Birmingham, he has published more than 100 papers on neural networks, evolutionary algorithms (particularly genetic programming), and image/signal processing and has co-authored Foundations of Genetic Programming with Bill Langdon (Springer, February 2002). He is a co-chair of EvoGP, the EvoNet working group on genetic programming, and is the chair of the GP deme at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2002 as well as programme co-chair of the 2002 Foundations of Genetic Algorithms Workshop (FOGA-7).
"The ABC of GP": tutorial outline
Evolutionary Computation in a Nutshell, Simple Generational GA, What is GP? Representation, Representing Programs in Prefix Notation, Implementation, Primitive Sets, Properties of the Primitive Set, Protected Functions, Examples GP Search Space, Examples Initial Population in GP, Initialisation Methods, Implementation Crossover in GP, Implementation Mutation in GP Running Programs in GP, Execution Strategies, Recursive Interpretation, Implementation, Examples, GP Macros Fitness functions in GP, Symbolic Regression, Steps to Solve Symbolic Regression Problems, Examples of Symbolic Regression Factors Determining GP Performance Divide-and-conquer Strategy, Automatic Function Definition, Changes required by ADFs, example GP Schema Theory Conclusions
The tutorial slides can be previewed at the following URL:
http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/poli/eurogp2002/
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