Genetic Programming: 11th European Conference, Eurogp 2008, Naples, Italy, March 26-28, 2008, Proceedings (lecture Notes In Computer Science)

The 11th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2008, took place in Naples, Italy from 26 to 28 March in the University of Naples Congress Centre with spectacular views over the Gulf of Naples. This volume contains the papers for the 21 oral presentations and 10 posters that were presented during this time. A diverse array of topics were covered re?ecting the current state of research in the ?eld of Genetic Programming, including the latest work on representations, theory, operators and analysis, evolvable hardware, agents and numerous applications. A rigorous, double-blind peer review process was employed, with each s- mission reviewed by at least three members of the international Program C- mittee. In total 61 papers were submitted this year, making an acceptance rate of 34% for full papers, and an overall acceptance rate of 51% including posters. S- mission of papers and the reviewing process were greatly assisted by the use of the MyReview management software originally developed by Philippe Rigaux, Bertrand Chardon and other colleagues from the Universit ́e Paris-Sud Orsay, France. We are especially grateful to Marc Schoenauer from INRIA, France for managing this system. Reviewers were asked to nominate keywords specifying their area of expertise, and these keywords were matched to those selected by the authors of the submitted papers with the assistance of the optimal assignment feature of the conference management software. Front Matter....Pages - Training Time and Team Composition Robustness in Evolved Multi-agent Systems....Pages 1-12 Winning Ant Wars: Evolving a Human-Competitive Game Strategy Using Fitnessless Selection....Pages 13-24 In Silicon No One Can Hear You Scream: Evolving Fighting Creatures....Pages 25-36 Real-Time, Non-intrusive Speech Quality Estimation: A Signal-Based Model....Pages 37-48 Good News: Using News Feeds with Genetic Programming to Predict Stock Prices....Pages 49-60 A Genetic Programming Approach to Deriving the Spectral Sensitivity of an Optical System....Pages 61-72 A SIMD Interpreter for Genetic Programming on GPU Graphics Cards....Pages 73-85 Partitioned Incremental Evolution of Hardware Using Genetic Programming....Pages 86-97 Population Parallel GP on the G80 GPU....Pages 98-109 Operator Equalisation and Bloat Free GP....Pages 110-121 Practical Model of Genetic Programming’s Performance on Rational Symbolic Regression Problems....Pages 122-133 Semantic Building Blocks in Genetic Programming....Pages 134-145 A Simple Powerful Constraint for Genetic Programming....Pages 146-157 Crossover, Sampling, Bloat and the Harmful Effects of Size Limits....Pages 158-169 The Performance of a Selection Architecture for Genetic Programming....Pages 170-181 A Comparison of Cartesian Genetic Programming and Linear Genetic Programming....Pages 182-193 Evolvability Via Modularity-Induced Mutational Focussing....Pages 194-205 A Linear Estimation-of-Distribution GP System....Pages 206-217 Feature Discovery in Reinforcement Learning Using Genetic Programming....Pages 218-229 Hardware Accelerators for Cartesian Genetic Programming....Pages 230-241 Genetic Programming and Class-Wise Orthogonal Transformation for Dimension Reduction in Classification Problems....Pages 242-253 Evolving Proactive Aggregation Protocols....Pages 254-265 GP Classification under Imbalanced Data sets: Active Sub-sampling and AUC Approximation....Pages 266-277 Exposing a Bias Toward Short-Length Numbers in Grammatical Evolution....Pages 278-288 Cooperative Problem Decomposition in Pareto Competitive Classifier Models of Coevolution....Pages 289-300 Integrating Categorical Variables with Multiobjective Genetic Programming for Classifier Construction....Pages 301-311 The Effects of Constant Neutrality on Performance and Problem Hardness in GP....Pages 312-324 Applying Cost-Sensitive Multiobjective Genetic Programming to Feature Extraction for Spam E-mail Filtering....Pages 325-336 PlasmidPL: A Plasmid-Inspired Language for Genetic Programming....Pages 337-349 Using Genetic Programming for Turing Machine Induction....Pages 350-361 Altering Search Rates of the Meta and Solution Grammars in the mGGA....Pages 362-373 Back Matter....Pages -

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2008, held in Naples, Italy, in March 2008 colocated with EvoCOP 2008.

The 21 revised plenary papers and 10 revised poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 61 submissions. A great variety of topics are presented reflecting the current state of research in the field of genetic programming, including the latest work on representations, theory, operators and analysis, evolvable hardware, agents and numerous applications.