Genetic Programming: 17th European Conference, EuroGP 2014, Granada, Spain, April 23-25, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8599 Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues)

The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Genetic Programming, Euro GP 2014, held in Grenada, Spain, in April 2014 co-located with the Evo\*2014 events, Evo BIO, Evo COP, Evo MUSART and Evo Applications. The 15 revised full papers presented together with 5 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected form 40 submissions. The wide range of topics in this volume reflects the current state of research in the field. Thus, we see topics as diverse as search-based software engineering, image analysis, dynamical systems, evolutionary robotics and operational research to the foundations of search as characterized through semantic variation operators. Front Matter....Pages - Higher Order Functions for Kernel Regression....Pages 1-12 Flash: A GP-GPU Ensemble Learning System for Handling Large Datasets....Pages 13-24 Learning Dynamical Systems Using Standard Symbolic Regression....Pages 25-36 Semantic Crossover Based on the Partial Derivative Error....Pages 37-47 A Multi-dimensional Genetic Programming Approach for Multi-class Classification Problems....Pages 48-60 Generalisation Enhancement via Input Space Transformation: A GP Approach....Pages 61-74 On Diversity, Teaming, and Hierarchical Policies: Observations from the Keepaway Soccer Task....Pages 75-86 Genetically Improved CUDA C++ Software....Pages 87-99 Measuring Mutation Operators’ Exploration-Exploitation Behaviour and Long-Term Biases....Pages 100-111 Exploring the Search Space of Hardware / Software Embedded Systems by Means of GP....Pages 112-123 Enhancing Branch-and-Bound Algorithms for Order Acceptance and Scheduling with Genetic Programming....Pages 124-136 Using Genetic Improvement and Code Transplants to Specialise a C++ Program to a Problem Class....Pages 137-149 ESAGP – A Semantic GP Framework Based on Alignment in the Error Space....Pages 150-161 Building a Stage 1 Computer Aided Detector for Breast Cancer Using Genetic Programming....Pages 162-173 NEAT, There’s No Bloat....Pages 174-185 The Best Things Don’t Always Come in Small Packages: Constant Creation in Grammatical Evolution....Pages 186-197 Asynchronous Evolution by Reference-Based Evaluation: Tertiary Parent Selection and Its Archive....Pages 198-209 Behavioral Search Drivers for Genetic Programing....Pages 210-221 Cartesian Genetic Programming: Why No Bloat?....Pages 222-233 On Evolution of Multi-category Pattern Classifiers Suitable for Embedded Systems....Pages 234-245 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2013, held in Vienna, Austria, in April 2013 co-located with the Evo* 2013 events, EvoMUSART, EvoCOP, EvoBIO, and EvoApplications. The 18 revised full papers presented together with 5 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The wide range of topics in this volume reflects the current state of research in the field, including different genres of GP (tree-based, linear, grammar-based, Cartesian), theory, novel operators, and applications. Genetic Programming comprises of proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2010. Topics include novel models, performance enhancements, extensions of genetic programming, and various applications.