EuroGP2000
THIRD EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON GENETIC PROGRAMMING
In conjunction with
ICES2000
and
EvoWorkshops2000 on evolutionary computing
Edinburgh, 15-16th April, 2000

Genetic Programming (GP) is a new branch of Evolutionary Computation in which the structures in the population being evolved are computer programs. GP has been applied successfully to a large number of difficult problems like automatic design, pattern recognition, robotic control, synthesis of neural networks, symbolic regression, music and picture generation, etc.

EuroGP2000 is the biggest event devoted to genetic programming to be held in Europe. It is a high quality conference where state-of-the-art work on the theory of GP and applications of GP to real world problems will be presented. It is the third of its kind following EuroGP'98 which took place in Paris and EuroGP'99 in Sweden. Like the two previous workshops, EuroGP2000 is organised by EvoGP, the genetic programming working group of EvoNET, the Network of Excellence in Evolutionary Computing. The aims are to give European and non-European researchers in the area of genetic programming as well as people from industry an opportunity to present their latest research and discuss current developments and applications. EuroGP2000 was held in the University of Edinburgh Conference and Training Centre during the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

Topics of interest at EuroGP2000 included

Theoretical developments
Experimental results on performance and behaviour of GP runs
New algorithms, representations and operators
Applications of GP to real-life problems
Hybrid architectures including GP components
Comparisons with other machine learning or program-induction techniques
New libraries and implementations
etc

The conference consisted of:

A tutorial on GP by John Koza
Keynote speech by David Goldberg
Oral and poster presentations
Industrial stands and demonstrations
And a lot more

Programme: See programme.html

Submissions:

Now closed.

The papers were peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind process. Authors were notified via email on the results of the review by 24 December 1999. Authors have been given the opportunity to comment on the standard and length of their reviews.

The material in papers must represent substantially new work that has not been previously published by conferences, journals, or edited books etc. in the field of evolutionary computation. By submitting a camera-ready final paper to the conference, the authors agree that substantially the same material will not be published by another conference in the field (however, material may conceivably be later revised and submitted to an EC journal or material may be submitted to a non-EC conference, such as an applications conference).

As with previous years (1998, 1999) the proceedings have been published by Springer Verlag as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS volume 1802.

Accepted Papers:

Papers and posters to be presented (bibtex)

The papers presented at EuroGP2000 appear in the conference proceedings, which were available at the conference.

Registration

There was a combined registration form for EuroGP2000 and the EvoWorkshops2000 and ICES2000. There were substantial discounts for early registrations, joint registrations with EvoWorkshops 2000 and/or ICES 2000 and to students. Limited student travel funds were also be available.

Contact Jennifer Willies:
tel: ++ 44 (0) 131 455 4218
fax: ++ 44 (0) 131 455 4440
e-mail: evonet@dcs.napier.ac.uk or jennifer@dcs.napier.ac.uk

Organising Committee:

Wolfgang Banzhaf, Dortmund University, UK (Program co-chair) e-mail: banzhaf@cs.uni-dortmund.de
Terry Fogarty, Napier University, UK (Coordination chair, for ICES2000, EuroGP2000, and other co-located EvoNet workshops): e-mail: T.Fogarty@dcs.napier.ac.uk
William B. Langdon, Center Voor Wiskunde en Informatica, NL (Publicity chair)
Julian Miller, (Local Chair) e-mail: J.F.Miller@cs.bham.ac.uk
Peter Nordin, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (Publication chair) e-mail: nordin@fy.chalmers.se
Riccardo Poli, The University of Birmingham, UK (Program co-chair) e-mail: R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk

Programme Committee:

Peter Angeline, Natural Selection, New York, USA
Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany
Marco Dorigo, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Gusz Eiben, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Terry Fogarty, Napier University, UK
James A. Foster, University of Idaho, USA
Chris Gathercole, Harlequin, UK
Thomas D. Haynes, USA
Hitoshi Iba, University of Tokyo, Japan
Christian Jacob, University of Calgary, Canada
Robert E. Keller, University of Dortmund, Germany
W. B. Langdon, Center Voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands
Evelyne Lutton, INRIA, France
Nic McPhee, University of Minnesota, Morris, USA
Jean-Arcady Meyer, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Julian Miller, The University of Birmingham, UK
Peter Nordin, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Riccardo Poli, The University of Birmingham, UK
Joao C. F. Pujol, Centro de Desenvolvimento da Energia Nuclea, Brazil
Conor Ryan, University of Limerick, Ireland
Marc Schoenauer, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Michele Sebag, Ecole Polytechnique, France
Terry Soule, St Cloud State University, Minnesota, USA
Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi, Genetica - Advanced Software Architectures, Italy
Adrian Thompson, University of Sussex, UK
Marco Tomassini, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
Hans-Michael Voigt, Center for Applied Computer Science, Berlin, German
Peter A. Whigham, The University of Otago, New Zealand
Xin Yao, The University of Birmingham, UK

Venue and Accommodation:

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. It is an attractive location very well connected to other United Kingdom, European and overseas destinations.

EuroGP2000 was held in the University of Edinburgh Conference and Training Centre.

EvoWorkshops2000 (17 April), such as EvoRobot2000 and ICES2000 (17-19 April) were held at the nearby Apex International Hotel.

Conference Web Site:

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rmp/eebic/eurogp2000

Photographs:

Previous Events:

EuroGP'99 Sweden

EuroGP'98 Paris

Contacts:

Riccardo Poli
email: R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk
URL: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~rmp
School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham
Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

Tel: +44-121-414-3739
Fax: +44-121-414-4281

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Banzhaf
email: banzhaf@cs.uni-dortmund.de
URL: http://ls11-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/people/banzhaf/
Dept. of Computer Science, LS 11
University of Dortmund
D-44221 Dortmund, Germany

Tel: +49 231 9700 953
Tel: +49 231 9700 951 (Secretary)

W. B. Langdon cs.ucl.ac.uk $Date: 2003/01/12 12:17:02 $

EuroGP2000 THIRD EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON GENETIC PROGRAMMING In conjunction with ICES2000 and EvoWorkshops2000 on evolutionary computing Edinburgh, 15-16th April, 2000