The main focus of the GP-98 conference (and most
of the papers) is on genetic programming. In addition,
papers describing recent developments in closely related
areas of evolutionary computation will be reviewed and
selected by special program committees appointed
and supervised by special program chairs. These areas will
include
--- genetic algorithms - Kalyanmoy Deb and David E. Goldberg
--- evolutionary programming - Kumar Chellapilla and David Fogel
--- evolution strategies - Wolfgang Banzhaf
--- classifer systems - Rick Riolo
--- evolvable hardware - Hitoshi Iba
--- DNA computing - Max Garzon
--- evolutionary robotics - Marco Dorigo
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GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP: On Tuesday
July 21, 1998, there will be a one-day workshop where 12
graduate students will make a presentation on their ongoing
PhD thesis work to a faculty mentor panel and other students.
Chair: Una-May O'Reilly. See www.genetic-programming.org for details.
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10 CO-LOCATED CONFERENCES: There are a total of 10 conferences
in Madison at the same (or adjacent times) in Madison as GP-98.
Six events will be held concurrently in Madison:
--- Genetic Programming 1998 Conference on July 22 - 25 (GP-
98)
--- International Conference of Machine Learning on July 24 -
27 (ICML-98),
--- Inductive Logic Programming conference on July 22 - 24
(ILP-98),
--- Computatinal Learning Theory l998 Conference on July 24 -
27 (COLT-98),
--- Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 1998 Conference on
July 24-26 (UAI-98),
--- Symposium on Genetic Algorithms on July 22 - 25 (SGA-
98) (See below for details).
These 6 events will be held just before
--- American Association for Artificial Intelligence on July 26 -
30 (AAAI-98 ), and
--- Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence on July 26
- 30 (IAAI-98 ).
These 2 events will be held just before
--- Cognitive Science 1998 Conference on August 1 - 4 (Cog
Sci 98).
Various joint activities are currently being planned among the
various concurrent and co-located conferences.
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MADISON is located in south central Wisconsin inside a triangle
formed by Chicago, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis. Dane County
Regional Airport, located minutes from downtown Madison,
offers more than 75 daily flights. Airlines that serve the
Madison area include Comair, Delta Connection, Midwest
Express / Skyway, Northwest airlines, TWE, and United.
Madison is also accessible via major highways from Chicago,
Milwaukee, and Minneapolis. Madison is about a 1-1/2 hour
drive from Milwaukee (via I-94), 2-1/2 hour drive from Chicago
(via I-90), and a 4-1/2 hour drive from Minneapolis/St. Paul (via
I-94). Van Galder Bus Company (608) 257-5593 offers daily
service to O'Hare Airport and other Chicago locations. Badger
Coaches (608) 255-6771 provides daily bus service to
Milwaukee locations. The GP-98 conference will be held at the
Memorial Union Building (not "Union South") of the University
of Wisconsin at 800 Langdon Street, Madison, Wisconsin
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TUTORIALS: There will be 23 tutorials at GP-98 (12 on Wednesday
July 22, 1998 and 3 or 4 on each of the next 3 days).
Cellular Encoding - David Andre, University of California -
Berkeley
Genetic Programming with Linear Genomes - Wolfgang
Banzhaf, University of Dortmund
Design of Electrical Circuits using Genetic Programming P
Forrest H Bennett III, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
Evolutionary Programming - Kumar Chellapilla, University of
California - San Diego
Ant Colony Optimization - Marco Dorigo, Universite' Libre de
Bruxelles
An Introduction to Evolutionary Computation - David B. Fogel,
Natural Selection, Inc.
Introduction to Evolutionary Robotics - Takashi Gomi, Applied
AI Systems, Inc.
Introduction to Genetic Algorithms - David E. Goldberg,
University of Illinois
Strongly Typed Genetic Programming - Thomas Haynes,
Wichita State University
Evolution Strategies - Michael Herdy, Technische Universitdt
Berlin
Intelligent Agents - Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University
Constrained Genetic Programming - Cezary Z. Janikow,
University of Missouri - St. Louis
Introduction to Genetic Programming - John Koza, Stanford
University
Advanced Genetic Programming - John Koza, Stanford
University
Large-Scale Discrete Optimization via Parallel Genetic
Algorithms - Robert R. Meyer, University of Wisconsin
Computing with DNA: An Introduction - Russell Deaton,
University of Memphis and Stephen Karl, University of South
Florida
Inductive Logic Programming - Luc De Raedt, Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven and Nada Lavrac, Jozef Stefan Institute
Inherent Characteristics and Biases of Evolution in Genetic
Programming - Justinian Rosca, Siemens Corporate Research
Cellular Neural Networks, the new CNN Universal Machine as a
spatiotemporal array computer, and CNN applications - Tamas
Roska, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Probabilistic Incremental Program Evolution (PIPE) - Rafal
Salustowicz, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland
Bio-inspired Hardware Systems: A Phylogenetic, Ontogenetic,
Epigenetic Approach - Moshe Sipper, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Lausanne
Cellular Programming: The Evolution Of Parallel Cellular
Machines - Moshe Sipper, Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Lausanne
Reinforcement Learning - Richard S. Sutton, University of
Massachusetts
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FOR MORE INFORMATION concerning submitting papers,
hotels, university housing, travel, student travel grants, request
for tutorial proposals, request for workshop proposals, and other
matters, see the GP-98 WWW home page at www.genetic-
programming.org. For administrative matters, e-mail to
gp@aaai.org or contact GP-98 Conference, c/o American
Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445 Burgess Drive,
Menlo Park, CA 94025; PHONE: 650-328-3123; FAX: 650-
321-4457. For technical matters, e-mail to John Koza, GP-98
Chair, Computer Science Department, Stanford University at
koza@cs.stanford.edu.