Late Breaking Papers at EuroGP'98: The First European Workshop on Genetic Programming

This booklet contains the late-breaking papers of the First European Workshop on Genetic Programming (EuroGP'98) held in Paris on April 14-15 1998. The purpose of the late-breaking papers was to provide attendees with information about research that was initiated, enhanced, improved, or completed after the original paper submission deadline in December 1997.

To ensure coverage of the most up-to-date research, the deadline for submission was set only a month before the workshop. Late-breaking papers were examined for relevance and quality by the organisers of the EuroGP'98 and one of the other members of the programme committee (Bill Langdon), but no formal review process took place.

The 7 late-breaking papers in this booklet (which was distributed at the workshop) were presented during a poster session held on the evening of Wednesday 15 April 1998 during EuroGP'98.

Authors individually retain copyright (and all other rights) to their late-breaking papers.

This booklet is available as technical report CSRP-98-10 PDF (33MB you may want to save PDF to disk and then read it back.) from Mrs. Ceinwen Cushway, the School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. Email: Tel: +44-121-414-3735

• K. Govinda Char. Constructive learning with genetic programming. In Riccardo Poli, W. B. Langdon, Marc Schoenauer, Terry Fogarty, and Wolfgang Banzhaf, editors, Late Breaking Papers at EuroGP'98: the First European Workshop on Genetic Programming, pages 1-5, Paris, France, 14-15 April 1998. The University of Birmingham, UK.

• Marc Ebner. On the evolution of interest operators using genetic programming. In Riccardo Poli, W. B. Langdon, Marc Schoenauer, Terry Fogarty, and Wolfgang Banzhaf, editors, Late Breaking Papers at EuroGP'98: the First European Workshop on Genetic Programming, pages 6-10, Paris, France, 14-15 April 1998. The University of Birmingham, UK.

• W. B. Langdon. Better trained ants. In Riccardo Poli, W. B. Langdon, Marc Schoenauer, Terry Fogarty, and Wolfgang Banzhaf, editors, Late Breaking Papers at EuroGP'98: the First European Workshop on Genetic Programming, pages 11-13, Paris, France, 14-15 April 1998. The University of Birmingham, UK.

  The problem of programming an artificial ant to follow the Santa Fe trail has been repeatedly used as a benchmark problem. Recently we have shown performance of several techniques is not much better than the best performance obtainable using uniform random search. We suggested that this could be because the program fitness landscape is difficult for hill climbers and the problem is also difficult for Genetic Algorithms as it contains multiple levels of deception. Here we redefine the problem so the ant is obliged to traverse the trail in approximately the correct order. A simple genetic programming system, with no size or depth restriction, is shown to perform approximately three times better with the improved training function.

• Eduard Lukschandl, Mangus Holmlund, and Eirk Moden. Automatic evolution of java bytecode: First experience with the java virtual machine. In Riccardo Poli, W. B. Langdon, Marc Schoenauer, Terry Fogarty, and Wolfgang Banzhaf, editors, Late Breaking Papers at EuroGP'98: the First European Workshop on Genetic Programming, pages 14-16, Paris, France, 14-15 April 1998. The University of Birmingham, UK.

• Conor Ryan and Laur Ivan. Automatic discovery of loop transformations for autoparallelisation. In Riccardo Poli, W. B. Langdon, Marc Schoenauer, Terry Fogarty, and Wolfgang Banzhaf, editors, Late Breaking Papers at EuroGP'98: the First European Workshop on Genetic Programming, pages 17-20, Paris, France, 14-15 April 1998. The University of Birmingham, UK.

• Janet Taylor, Jem J Rowland, Richard J Gilbert, Alun Jones, Michael K Winson, and Douglas B Kell. Genetic algorithm decoding for the interpretation of infra-red spectra in analytical biotechnology. In Riccardo Poli, W. B. Langdon, Marc Schoenauer, Terry Fogarty, and Wolfgang Banzhaf, editors, Late Breaking Papers at EuroGP'98: the First European Workshop on Genetic Programming, pages 21-25, Paris, France, 14-15 April 1998. The University of Birmingham, UK.

• Tina Yu and Chris Clark. Recursion, lambda-abstractions and genetic programming. In Riccardo Poli, W. B. Langdon, Marc Schoenauer, Terry Fogarty, and Wolfgang Banzhaf, editors, Late Breaking Papers at EuroGP'98: the First European Workshop on Genetic Programming, pages 26-30, Paris, France, 14-15 April 1998. The University of Birmingham, UK.