Programme

Draft: subject to change

See also: Programme overview

Monday 14 April
0900-1000	Registration
1000-1115	EuroGP Session 1: Conference opening and invited speaker: David Goldberg *Session chair: Terry Soule*
1115-1130	Coffee break
1130-1300	EuroGP Session 2: Linear GP, crossover and constants *Session chair: Maarten Keijzer* Maximum Homologous Crossover for Linear Genetic Programming Platel M, Clergue M, Collard P New Factorial Design Theoretic Crossover Operator for Parametrical Problem Chan K, Aydin M, Fogarty T Analysis of a Digit Concatenation Approach to Constant Creation O'Neill M, Dempsey I, Brabazon A, Ryan C
1300-1400	Lunch
1400-1530	EuroGP Session 3: Medical applications *Session chair: Edward Tsang* An innovative application of a constrained-syntax genetic programming system to the problem ofpredicting survival of patients Bojarczuk C, Lopes H, Freitas A Interactive GP for Data Retrieval in Medical Databases Landrin-Schweitzer Y, Collet P, Lutton E Overfitting or Poor Learning: A Critique of Current Financial Applications of GP Chen S, Kuo T
1530-1600	Tea break
1600-1730	EuroGP Session 4: Meta-fitness and alternative computational structures *Session chair: Marco Tomassini* Decreasing the Number of Evaluations in Evolutionary Algorithms by using a Meta-Model of the Fitness Function Ziegler J, Banzhaf W Evolving Finite State Transducers: Some Initial Explorations Lucas S Evolving Cellular Automata to Grow Microstructures Basanta D, Bentley P, Miodownik M, Holm E
1730-1930	EuroGP Session 5: Posters *Session chair: James Foster* Assembling Strategies in Extrinsic Evolvable Hardware with Bidirectional Incremental Evolution Baradavkaigor I, Kalganova T Neutral Variations Cause Bloat in Linear GP Brameier M, Banzhaf W Experimental design based multi-parent crossover operator Chan K, Fogarty T An Enhanced Framework for Microprocessor Corno F, Squillero G The Effect of Plagues in Genetic Programming: A Study of Variable-Size Populations Fernandez F, Vanneschi L, Tomassini M Multi Niche Parallel GP with a Junk-code Migration Model Garcia S, Levine J, Gonzalez F Tree Adjoining Grammars, Language Bias, and Genetic Programming Xuan N, McKay R, Abbass H Artificial Immune System Programming for Symbolic Regression Johnson C Grammatical Evolution with Bidirectional Representation Kubalik J, Koutni J, Rothkrantz L Introducing a Perl Genetic Programming System: and Can Meta-evolution Solve the Bloat Problem? MacCallum R Evolutionary Optimized Mold Temperature Control Strategies using a Multi-Polyline Approach Mehnen J, Michelitsch T, Weinert K Genetic Programming for Attribute Construction in Data Mining Otero F, Silva M, Freitas A, Nievola J Sensible Initialisation in Chorus Ryan C, Atif R An Analysis of Diversity of Constants of Genetic Programming Ryan C, Keijzer M Research of a cellular automaton simulating logic gates by evolutionary algorithms Sapin E, Bailleux O, Chabrier J From Implementations to a General Concept of Evolvable Machines Sekanina L Cooperative Evolution on the Intertwined Spirals Problem Soule T The Root Causes of Code Growth in Genetic Programming Streeter M Fitness Distance Correlation in Structural Mutation Genetic Programming Vanneschi L, Tomassini M, Collard P, Clergue M Disease modeling using Evolved Discriminate Function Werner J, Kalganova T No Free Lunch, Program Induction and Combinatorial Problems Woodward J, Neil J
Tuesday 15 April
1000-1100	EuroGP Session 6: Population size and performance measures *Session chair: Marc Schoenauer* More on Computational Effort Statistics for Genetic Programming Niehaus J, Banzhaf W Reducing Population Size While Maintaining Diversity Monsieurs P, Flerackerseddy E
1100-1120	Coffee break
1120-1250	EuroGP Session 7: Meta-search, compiler optimisation and bloat *Session chair: Bill Langdon* Genetic Programming Applied to Compiler Heuristic Optimization Stephenson M, O'Reilly U, Martin M, Amarasinghe S Genetic Programming With Meta-Search: Searching For a Successful Population Within The Classification Domain Loveard T A Simple but Theoretically-motivated Method to Control Bloat in Genetic Programming Poli R
1250-1345	Lunch
1345-1515	EuroGP Session 8: Feature construction and modularity and hierarchies in GP *Session chair: Wolfgang Banzhaf* Evolving Hierarchical and RecursiveTeleo-Reactive Programs through Genetic Programming Kochenderfer M Feature Construction and Selection using Genetic Programming and a Genetic Algorithm Smith M, Bull L Modularity in Genetic Programming Woodward J
1515-1530	Tea break
1530-1630	EuroGP Session 9: Multi-program integration *Session chair: Marco Tomassini* Divide and Conquer: Genetic Programming Based on Multiple Branches Encoding Rodriguez K, Oliver-Morales C Ensemble techniques for Parallel Genetic Programming based Classifiers Folino G, Pizzuti C, Spezzano G
1630-1730	EuroGP Session 10: Conference debate *Session chair: James Foster*
1800	Conference dinner: Tudor banquet
Wednesday 16 April
1000-1100	EuroGP Session 11: Alternative representations and 3-D shape design *Session chair: Ernesto Costa* How functional dependency adapts to salience hierarchy in the GAuGE system Nicolau M, Ryan C Evolutionary Design of Objects Using Scene Graphs Ebner M Parallel Programs are More Evolvable than Sequential Programs Leung K, Lee K, Cheang S
1100-1120	Coffee break
1120-1250	EuroGP Session 12: Symbolic regression *Session chair: Riccardo Poli* Genetic Programming with Boosting for Ambiguities in Regression Problems Paris G, Robilliard D, Fonlupt C Improving Symbolic Regression with Interval Arithmetic and Linear Scaling Keijzer M
1250-1345	Lunch
1345-1515	EuroGP Session 13: Invited speaker: Christopher Stephens, and conference close *Session chair: Conor Ryan*