Genetic Programming, First European Workshop, EuroGP'98, Paris, France, April 14-15, 1998, Proceedings

A review of theoretical and experimental results on schemata in genetic programming.- Where does the good stuff go, and why? how contextual semantics influences program structure in simple genetic programming.- Fitness causes bloat: Mutation.- Concepts of inductive genetic programming.- Immediate transfer of global improvements to all individuals in a population compared to automatically defined functions for the EVEN-5,6-PARITY problems.- Non-destructive depth-dependent crossover for genetic programming.- Grammatical evolution: Evolving programs for an arbitrary language.- Genetic programming bloat with dynamic fitness.- Speech sound discrimination with genetic programming.- Efficient evolution of asymmetric recurrent neural networks using a PDGP-inspired two-dimensional representation.- A cellular-programming approach to pattern classification.- Evolving coupled map lattices for computation.- Genetic programming for automatic design of self-adaptive robots.- Genetic modelling of customer retention.- An evolutionary hybrid metaheuristic for solving the vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous fleet.- Building a genetic programming framework: The added-value of design patterns.- Evolutionary computation and the tinkerer's evolving toolbox.- A dynamic lattice to envolve hierarchically shared subroutines.