GECCO 2003
Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation

The 2nd Grammatical Evolution Workshop (GEWS 2003)

a Workshop of

The 2003 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003)

July 12-16, 2003, Chicago, USA


Following on from the success of the first Grammatical Evolution Workshop (GEWS 2002) held at GECCO 2002, the 2nd Grammatical Evolution Workshop will be held at GECCO 2003.

Grammatical Evolution (GE) is an 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 and applications.


Workshop Deadlines

Expressions of Interest: Open
Paper submission: Friday March 7th, 2003
Acceptance/Rejection notification: Friday March 21th, 2003
Camera-ready copy submission: Friday April 4th, 2003


Workshop Submission Instructions

Submitted papers may be up to 4 pages in length. The style of the paper should adhere to the GECCO format (i.e., Springer-Verlag's llncs style). Authors are requested to submit their papers in electronic form (postscript or PDF) via email to: michael.oneill@ul.ie

Program

A grammar for petri net modeling in human genetics.
Jason H. Moore and Lance W. Hahn

Sensible initialisation in grammatical evolution.
Conor Ryan and Atif Azad

Automatic model induction of a biological wastewater treatment process using context free grammar genetic programming.
Yoon-Seok Hong

Investigating degenerate code and gene dependency in the GAuGE system.
Miguel Nicolau, Anne Auger, and Conor Ryan


Organisers

Michael O'Neill
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
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