Genetic Programming IV: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming.

This book is the proceedings of the fourth annual conference on evolutionary programming held in 1995 in San Diego. It contains 44 articles, most of which are applications. They cover the fields of evolutionary programming (EP), inductive logicprogramming, morphogenic evolutionary computation, evolutionary strategies, evolutionary optimization, medical engineering, pattern recognition, system identification, learning, self-adaptation, biology, biochemistry, and control. Wide applications make this book very useful to practitioners facing real-world problems. The evolutionary methods, including EP, genetic algorithms (GA), evolutionary computation, and evolutionary strategy, are believed to be easy and powerful alternatives to the conventional mathematical and AI methods. In addition, the book is of great value because it can be used not only for solving problems but also for defining or finding problems. In other words, traditional methods are useful and precise for well-defined problems, but evolutionary methods have the advantage of handling ill-defined problems that we unfortunately come across in the practical fields so often. Several articles are fundamental. They, I expect, promote the evolutionary method in a sophisticated and rigorous