GECCO 2004
Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation

The 3rd Grammatical Evolution Workshop (GEWS 2004)

a Workshop of

The 2004 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004)

June 26-30, Seattle, Washington, USA


Following on from the success of two earlier workshops on Grammatical (GEWS 2002, GEWS 2003) held at GECCO 2002, and GECCO 2003 we are pleased to announce the 3rd Grammatical Evolution Workshop to be held at GECCO 2004.

Grammatical Evolution (GE) is an evolutionary automatic programming system that can evolve programs in an arbitrary language from a binary string. GE adopts a genotype-phenotype mapping process taking as input a grammar that describes the syntax of the evolved program. In addition to the grammar, the search algorithm (the standard has been a variable-length genetic algorithm) is also a 'plug-in' component of the system.

The workshop will address all aspects of GE including foundations, extensions, analysis, applications, and welcomes submissions on all grammar-based approaches to Genetic Programming.


Workshop Deadlines

Paper submission: Sunday March 14th 2004
Acceptance/Rejection notification: Friday April 16th 2004
Camera-ready copy submission: Wednesday April 28th 2004


Workshop Submission Instructions

Submitted papers may be up to 12 pages in length. The style of the paper should adhere to the GECCO Springer llncs format. Authors are requested to submit their papers in electronic form (postscript or pdf) via email to: michael.oneill@ul.ie

Program

Saturday June 26, 2004 (14:00-15:50 & 16:10-17:10)

14:00 - 14:10
Workshop Opening

Live Trading with Grammatical Evolution
Ian Dempsey, Michael O'Neill, Anthony Brabazon

Syntactically Correct Genetic Programming
Robert Vanyi, Szilvia Zvada

Solving Knapsack Problems with Attribute Grammars
Michael O'Neill, Robert Cleary, Nikola Nikolov

15:50 - 16:10
Break

Automatic Grammar Complexity Reduction in Grammatical Evolution
Miguel Nicolau

Open Discussion

Workshop Close


Organisers

Michael O'Neill
Biocomputing and Developmental Systems
Dept. of Computer Science & Information Systems
University of Limerick
Ireland
Email: michael.oneill@ul.ie
Tel: +353-61-213542
Fax: +353-61-202734

Conor Ryan
Biocomputing and Developmental Systems
Dept. of Computer Science & Information Systems
University of Limerick
Ireland
Email: conor.ryan@ul.ie
Tel: +353-61-202755
Fax: +353-61-202734


Program Committee

Atif Azad (University Of Limerick)
Anthony Brabazon (University College Dublin)
Maarten Keijzer (Free University Amsterdam)
Jirí Kubalík (CTU Prague)
Bill Langdon (University College London)
Bob McKay (Australian Defence Force Academy)
Nic McPhee (University of Minnesota)
Jason Moore (Vanderbilt University)
Miguel Nicolau (University Of Limerick)
Michael O'Neill (University Of Limerick)
Una-May O'Reilly (MIT)
Conor Ryan (University Of Limerick)
Marc Schoenauer (INRIA)
Michele Sebag (Université de Paris Sud)