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                CALL FOR PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION
                              
			      EUROGP'98
	   FIRST EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON GENETIC PROGRAMMING

			PARIS, 14-15 April, 1998

Genetic Programming (GP) is a new branch of Evolutionary Computation
in which the structures in the population being evolved are computer
programs. GP has been applied successfully to a large number of
difficult problems like automatic design, pattern recognition, robotic
control, synthesis of neural networks, symbolic regression, music and
picture generation, etc.

EUROGP'98 is the first event entirely devoted to Genetic Programming
to be held in Europe. The aims are to give European and non-European
researchers in the area of genetic programming as well as people from
industry an opportunity to present their latest research and discuss
current developments and applications. The event will be held, Tuesday
and Wednesday in the week following Easter, in the center of Paris,
Quartier Latin, a 5 minute walking distance from Notre-Dame.

The workshop is sponsored by the EvoNet, the European Network of
Excellence in Evolutionary Computation, and is one of the activities
of EvoGP, the working group on Genetic Programming of EvoNet.  It will
be held in conjunction with EVOROBOT'98, the first European event on
evolutionary robotics, organised by EvoRob, the EvoNet working group
on Evolutionary Robotics.  EVOROBOT'98 will be held on April 16-17 at
the same site as EUROGP'98.

Organising Committee:

  Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany (Program co-chair)
  Riccardo Poli, The University of Birmingham, UK (Program co-chair)
  Terry Fogarty, Napier University, UK (Publication chair)
  Marc Schoenauer, Ecole Polytechnique, France (Local chair) 

Programme Committee:

  Peter Angeline, Natural Selection, New York, USA
  Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund, Germany
  Tobias Blickle, Saarbruecken, Germany
  Marco Dorigo, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
  Gusz Eiben, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
  Terry Fogarty,  Napier University, UK
  Frederic Gruau, Center Voor Wiskunde en Informatica, The Netherlands
  Hitoshi Iba, Electrotechnical Laboratory, Japan
  W.B. Langdon, The University of Birmingham, UK
  Jean-Arcady Meyer, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
  Peter Nordin, DaCapo, Sweden
  Una-May O'Reilly, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  Riccardo Poli, The University of Birmingham, UK
  Marc Schoenauer, Ecole Polytechnique, France
  Michele Sebag, Ecole Polytechnique, France
  Andrea Tettamanzi, Genetica, Italy
  Marco Tomassini, Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland
  Hans-Michael Voigt, Center for Applied Computer Science, Berlin, Germany 
  Byoung-Tak Zhang, Seoul National University, Korea 

Venue:
 
  Ministere de l'Education Nationale, de l'Enseignement Superieur et
  de la Recherche, 1 rue Descartes, Paris, France.

  Situated in the heart of the "Quartier Latin", the conference site can 
  be easily reached by Metro from all airports and train stations. Precise
  directions can be found on the Web site of the workshops.

Accommodation:

  The small town of Paris has a surprisingly large number of hotels. A
  list of recommended hotels close to the conference venue can be found on
  the Web site, together with pointers to Paris' official Web sites
  providing extensive housing information.

Lunches:

  The area around the conference site is full of nice restaurants. The
  attendees will have a unique opportunity to discover the charms of 
  "international French cuisine".

Local arrangements:

  In case help is needed regarding venue and/or accommodation, please
  contact  

     Nathalie Limonta
     Centre de Mathematiques Appliquees
     Ecole Polytechnique
     91128 Palaiseau Cedex
     E-mail: limonta@cmapx.polytechnique.fr
   
Workshop Web Site:

   http://www.cmap.polytechnique.fr/www.EvoGP/EuroGP98.html


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              EUROGP'98  PROVISIONAL PROGRAM

 The abstracts of the papers listed below are available at the
 workshop Web site.

==== Tuesday April 14: Morning =======================================

 8:30am-- 9:00am Registration

 9:00am--11:00am Tutorial on Genetic Programming

11:00am--11:30am Coffee Break

11:30am--12:30pm John Koza's Invited Talk

==== Tuesday April 14: Afternoon and Evening =========================

EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES SESSION

2:00pm--2:40pm R. Poli and W. B. Langdon, A Review of Theoretical
               and Experimental Results on Schemata in Genetic
               Programming

2:40pm--3:20pm D. E. Goldberg and U.-M. O'Reilly, Where does the Good
               Stuff Go, and Why? How contextual semantics influence
               program structure in simple genetic programming

3:20pm--4:00pm W. B. Langdon and R. Poli, Fitness Causes Bloat:
               Mutation

4:00pm--4:20pm Coffee Break

4:20pm--5:00pm N. I. Nikolaev and S. Slavov, Concepts of Inductive
               Genetic Programming

POSTER SESSION

5:00pm--6:30pm

   S. Calderoni and P. Marcenac, Genetic Programming For Automatic Design
   Of Self-Adaptive Robots

   A. E. Eiben, A. E. Koudijsinst and F. Slisser, Genetic Modelling of
   Customer Retention

   L. S. Ochi, D. S. Vianna, L. M. A. Drummond, and A. O. Victor, An 
   Evolutionary Hybrid  Metaheuristic for Solving the Vehicle Routing 
   Problem with Heterogeneous Fleet

   T. Lenaerts and B. Manderick, Building a Genetic Programming Framework
   The Added-Value of Design Patterns

   P. G. K. Reiser, Evolutionary Computation and the Tinkerer's Evolving
   Toolbox

   A. Racine, M. Schoenauer, P. Dague, A dynamic Lattice to Evolve
   Hierarchically Shared Subroutines

==== Wednesday April 15: Morning =====================================

ALGORITHMS, REPRESENTATIONS AND OPERATORS SESSION

 9:00am-- 9:40am R. Aler, Immediate transfer of global improvements 
                 to all individuals in a population compared to 
                 Automatically Defined Functions for the EVEN-5,6-PARITY 
                 problems 

 9:40am--10:20am T. Ito, I. Iba and S. Sato, Non-Destructive
                 Depth-Dependent Crossover for Genetic Programming

10:20am--11:00am C. Ryan, J.J. Collins and M. O Neill, Grammatical
                 Evolution: Evolving Programs for an Arbitrary Language

11:00am--11:20am Coffee Break

11:20am--12:00pm W. B. Langdon and R. Poli, Genetic Programming Bloat
                 with Dynamic Fitness


==== Wednesday April 15: Afternoon and Evening ========================

APPLICATIONS SESSION

 2:00am--2:40pm M. Conrads, P. Nordin and W. Banzhaf, Speech Sound
                 Discrimination With Genetic Programming


 2:40pm--3:20pm J. C. F. Pujol and R. Poli, Efficient Evolution of
                 Asymetric Recurrent Neural Networks Using a
                 PDGP-inspired Two-dimensional Representation

 3:20pm--4:00pm G. Adorni, F. Bergenti and S. Cagnoni, A
                cellular-programming approach to pattern
                classification

 4:00pm--4:20pm Coffee Break

 4:20pm--5:00pm C. Andersson and M. G. Nordahl, Evolving Coupled Map
                Lattices for Computation

LATE BREAKING POSTER SESSION

 5:00pm--6:30pm

PANEL DISCUSSION

 6.30pm--7.00pm


SOCIAL EVENT

8pm Worshop Dinner


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		     EUROGP'98 REGISTRATION FORM

Registration includes a copy of the EuroGP'98 proceedings, coffee
breaks, and social event. Registration for EuroGP'98 includes a free
(non-transferrable) registration for EvoRobot'98, but this does not
include the EvoRobot'98 proceedings that may be separately purchased
at a reduced price. Likewise registrants for EvoRobot'98 may freely
attend EuroGP'98 and the social event. They can also purchase the
corresponding proceedings at the reduced prices indicated below.

Registrants who wish to attend both workshops will have to fill and
return both the EuroGP'98 and the EvoRobot'98 registration forms even
if they do not wish to purchase any additional proceedings or social
event tickets.


Name:                                

Surname:

Affiliation:

Address:


City:                       

State/Country:           

Post Code:

Telephone:                                  

E-Mail:



Please tick as appropriate:

EuroGP'98 Registration -- Student:

  __ GBP 25 - Postmarked Before 20 March 1998
  __ GBP 40 - Postmarked After 20 March 1998

EuroGP'98 Registration -- Regular:

  __ GBP 50 - Postmarked Before 20 March 1998
  __ GBP 80 - Postmarked After 20 March 1998

Please note: if you have not ticked any of the above options you must
register for EvoRobot'98 in order to attend the EuroGP'98
workshop. 

Extra EuroGP'98 Proceedings:

  __ GBP 15 - Postmarked Before 20 March 1998
  __ GBP 25 - Postmarked After 20 March 1998

Extra EuroGP'98 Social Event Ticket:

  __ GBP 20 - Postmarked Before 20 March 1998
  __ GBP 25 - Postmarked After 20 March 1998

TOTAL GBP _____


SEND THIS FORM WITH A CHEQUE DRAWN IN GBP TO:    

 Jennifer Willies
 EvoNet Administrator
 Department of Computer Studies
 Napier University
 219 Colinton Rd
 Edinburgh, EH10 5PF 
 Scotland, UK


Please, note that registration on site will be allowed. The rate is
FRF 500 for students and FRF 1000 for non-students. Extra proceedings
and social event tickets can also be purchased for FRF 300.

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