| EUROGP2004 PROGRAMME | ||
| 7th European Conference on Genetic Programming | ||
| Monday 5 April | ||
| 0830 | Registration desk opens | |
| 0930-1100 | Conference openings and plenary session: invited speaker Stephanie Forrest | |
| 1100-1120 | Coffee break | |
| 1120-1250 | Hardware/concurrency/fault-tolerance (chair: Wolfgang Banzhaf) | |
| Designing Optimal Combinatorial Digital Circuits using a Multiple Logic Unit Processor | ||
| Sin Man Cheang, Kin Hong Lee, KwongSak Leung | ||
| A Practical Approach to Evolving Concurrent Programs, | ||
| David Jackson | ||
| Co-evolving Faults to Improve the Fault Tolerance of Sorting Networks | ||
| Michael L. Harrison, James A. Foster | ||
| 1250-1415 | Lunch | |
| 1415-1545 | Analysis (chair: Una-May O'Reilly) | |
| Toward a Meaningful Comparison between Different Genetic Programming Systems | ||
| Hoai Xuan Nguyen, R I McKay, D Essam, H A Abbass | ||
| A Data Structure for Improved GP Analysis via Efficient Computation | ||
| and Visualisation of Population Measures | ||
| Aniko Ekart, Steven Gustafson | ||
| How to Choose Appropriate Function Sets for GP | ||
| Gang Wang, Terence Soule | ||
| 1545-1600 | Coffee break | |
| 1600-1730 | Grammar-oriented approaches (chair: Conor Ryan) | |
| Efficient Crossover in the GAuGE System | ||
| Miguel Nicolau and Conor Ryan | ||
| Improving Grammar Based Evolution Algorithms via Attributed Derivation Trees | ||
| Szilvia Zvada, Robert Vanyi | ||
| Evolutionary Induction of Grammar Systems for Multi-agent Cooperation | ||
| Clayton M. Johnson, James Farrell | ||
| 1730-1900 | EuroGP Posters Session | |
| Evolved Matrix Operations for Post-Processing Protein Secondary Structure Predictions | ||
| Varun Aggarwal, Robert MacCallum | ||
| Genetic Programming for Natural Language Parsing | ||
| Lourdes Araujo | ||
| Comparing hybrid systems to design and optimize artificial neural networks | ||
| Pedro A Castillo, Maribel . Arenas, J J Merelo, Gustavo Romero, Fatima Rateb, Alberto Prieto | ||
| An Evolutionary Algorithm for the Input-Output Block Assignment Problem | ||
| Kit Yan Chan, Terence C Fogarty | ||
| Genetic Programming for Subjective Fitness Function Identification | ||
| Dan Costelloe, Conor Ryan | ||
| Saving Effort in Parallel GP by means of Plagues | ||
| Francisco Fernández, Aida Martín | ||
| Sampling of Unique Structures and Behaviours in Genetic Programming | ||
| Steven Gustafson, Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall | ||
| The Evolution of Concurrent Control Software Using Genetic Programming | ||
| John Hart, Martin Shepperd | ||
| Extending Grammatical Evolution to Evolve Digital Surfaces with Genr8 | ||
| Martin Hemberg, Una-May O'Reilly | ||
| Evolving Text Classifiers with Genetic Programming | ||
| Laurence Hirsch, Masoud Saeedi, Robin Hirsch | ||
| Automatic Synthesis of Instruction Decode Logic by Genetic Programming | ||
| David Jackson | ||
| Alternatives in Subtree Caching for Genetic Programming | ||
| Maarten Keijzer | ||
| Structural Risk Minimization on Decision Trees Using An Evolutionary | ||
| Multiobjective Optimization | ||
| DaeEun Kim | ||
| Global Distributed Evolution of L-Systems Fractals | ||
| W B Langdon | ||
| Reusing Code in Genetic Programming | ||
| Edgar Galvan Lopez, Riccardo Poli, Carlos A Coello Coello | ||
| Exploiting Reflection in Object Oriented Genetic Programming | ||
| Simon Lucas | ||
| Evolutionary Feature Construction using Information Gain and Gini Index | ||
| Mohammed A Muharram, George D Smith | ||
| On the Evolution of Evolutionary Algorithms | ||
| Jorge Tavares, Penousal Machado, Amílcar Cardoso, Francisco B Pereira, Ernesto Costa | ||
| Genetic Programming with Gradient Descent Search for Multiclass Object Classification | ||
| Mengjie Zhang, Will Smart | ||
| 1930 plus | Conference Reception at Town Hall | |
| Tuesday 6 April | ||
| 0930-1100 | Data modelling (chair: Maarten Keijzer) | |
| Boosting technique for combining Cellular GP Classifiers | ||
| Gianluigi Folino, Clara Pizzuti, Giandomenico Spezzano | ||
| Evaluation of chess position by modular neural network generated by genetic algorithm | ||
| Nicolas Lassabe, François Scharffe, Camacho Philippe, Autonès Mathieu, Aryel Beck, Hervé Luga | ||
| Lymphoma Cancer Classification Using Genetic Programming with SNR Features | ||
| Jin-Hyuk Hong and Sung-Bae Cho | ||
| 1100-1120 | Coffee break | |
| 1120-1250 | Nominations for Best Paper Award (chair: Ernesto Costa) | |
| Grammatical Evolution by Grammatical Evolution: The Evolution of Grammar and Genetic Code | ||
| Michael O'Neill, Conor Ryan | ||
| Evolution and Acquisition of Modules in Cartesian Genetic Programming | ||
| Julian Francis Miller, James A Walker | ||
| 1250-1415 | Lunch | |
| 1415-1515 | Nominations for Best Paper Award (chair: Terry Soule) | |
| Analysis of GP Improvement Techniques over the Real-World Inverse Problem of Ocean Colour | ||
| Grégory Valigiani, Cyril Fonlupt, Pierre Collet | ||
| Genetic Programming applied to Mixed Integer Programming | ||
| Konstantinos Kostikas, Charalambos Fragakis | ||
| 1515-1530 | Coffee break | |
| 1530-1630 | Euro GP discussion | |
| 1630-1745 | EuroGP Song Contest: | |
| live Interactive Evolutionary Algorithm experiment followed by winning performances | ||
| 1800 plus | Conference Dinner at São Marcos Palace | |
| Wednesday 7 April | ||
| 0945-1115 | Alternatives in Optimisation and Representations (chair: Julian Miller) | |
| Constrained Molecular Dynamics as a Search and Optimization Tool | ||
| Riccardo Poli, Christopher R. Stephens | ||
| On the performance of Genetic Operators and the Random Key Representation | ||
| Eoin Ryan, R Muhammad Atif Azad, Conor Ryan | ||
| Coevolution of Genetic Algorithms and Deterministic Solutions of Equations in Free Groups | ||
| Richard F Booth and Alexandre V Borovik | ||
| 1115-1130 | Coffee break | |
| 1130-1245 | Plenary session: invited speaker Zbigniew Michalewicz | |
| 1245-1300 | Conference closing, announcements and conference/workshop awards | |
| 1300-1400 | Lunch | |
| 1400- | Optional trip to Conimbriga Roman ruins | |