4. EP 1995: San Diego, CA, USA

John R. McDonnell, Robert G. Reynolds, David B. Fogel (Eds.): Evolutionary Programming IV: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference on Evolutionary Programming, San Diego, CA, USA, March 1-3, 1995. A Bradford Book, MIT Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1995, ISBN 0-262-13317-2

Novel Areas of Evolutionary Programming and Evolution Strategies

Jean-Bernard H. Minster, Nadya P. Williams, T. Guy Masters, J. Freeman Gilbert, Jennifer S. Haase: Application of Evolutionary Programming to Earthquake Hypocenter Determination. 3-17
V. William Porto: Non-Acoustic Sensor Array Localization Using Evolutionary Programming. 19-32
Thomas Bäck, Martin Schütz: Evolution Strategies for Mixed-Integer Optimization of Optical Multilayer Systems. 33-51
Jeanine Graf, Wolfgang Banzhaf: Interactive Evolution of Images. 53-65

Evolutionary Computation with Medical Applications

David B. Fogel, Anthony V. Sebald: Steps Toward Controlling Blood Pressure during Surgery Using Evolutionary Programming. 69-82
Thomas W. Brotherton, Patrick K. Simpson: Dynamic Feature Set Training of Neural Nets for Classification. 83-94
Mateen M. Rizki, Louis A. Tamburino, Michael A. Zmuda: Evolution of Morphological Recognition Systems. 95-106

Issues in Evolutionary Optimization I

Conor Ryan: Racial harmony and Function Optimization in Genetic Algorithms - The Races Genetic Algorithm. 109-125
Joseph L. Breeden: Optimizing Stochastic and Multiple Fitness Functions. 127-134
Zbigniew Michalewicz: A Survey of Constraint Handling Techniques in Evolutionary Computation Methods. 135-155

Pattern Discovery, Pattern Recognition, and System Identification

Donald E. Waagen, John R. McDonnell: A Combined Stochastic and Deterministic Approach for Classification Using Generalized Mixture Densities. 159-174
Mark W. Davis, Ted Dunning: Query Translation Using Evolutionary Programming for Multi-lingual Information Retrieval. 175-185
Cem Hocaoglu, Arthur C. Sanderson: Evolutionary Speciation Using Minimal Representation Size Clustering. 187-203
Thomas M. English, Moshe Gotesman: Stacked Generalization and Fitness Ranking in Evolutionary Algorithms. 205-218
Alessandro Fadda, Marc Schoenauer: Evolutionary Chromatographic Law Identification by Recurrent Neural Nets. 219-235
Marc M. Lankhorst, Marten D. van der Laan: Wavelet-Based Signal approximation with Genetic Algorithms. 237-255

Sepcial Session on Hierarchical Levels of Learning

S. J. Mertoguno, Nikolaos G. Bourbakis: The Levels of Learning in Kydon's Hierarchy. 259-270
Ahmet Ugur, Michael Conrad: Multiple Level Evolutionary Learning in Neuronal Pattern Recognition. 271-288
Robert G. Reynolds, Zbigniew Michalewicz, Michael J. Cavaretta: Using Cultural Algorithms for Constraint Handling in GENOCOP. 289-305
Kenneth A. De Jong, Mitchell A. Potter: Evolving Complex Structures via Cooperative Coevolution. 307-317
Nicholas Gessler: Ethnography of Artificial Culture: Specifications, Prospects, and Constraints. 319-331
Steve Bankes: Evolving Social Structure in Communities of Agents Through Meme Evolution. 333-352

Self-Adaptation in Evolutionary Computation

Lawrence J. Fogel, Peter J. Angeline, David B. Fogel: An Evolutionary Programming Approach to Self-Adaptation on Finite State Machines. 355-365
William M. Spears: Adapting Crossover in Evolutionary Algorithms. 367-384

Sepcial Session on Morphogenic Evolutionary Computation

Peter J. Angeline: Morphogenic Evolutionary Computations: Introduction, Issues and Example. 387-401
Mark Land, Richard K. Belew: Towards a Self-Replicating Language for Computation. 403-413
Frédéric Gruau, L. Darrell Whitley: A Programming Language for Artificial Development. 415-434

Issues in Evolutionary Optimization II

H. Paul Haiduk, Mikyeong Ahn, Jon Burgin, Moshe Gotesman, Hans Lyra, H. Willis Means, James Monroe, Sanjukta Patro, Thomas M. English: The Effects of Generating More Offspring from Less-Fit Parents. 437-447
Hyun Myung, Jong-Hwan Kim, David B. Fogel: Preliminary Investigations into a Two-State Method of Evolutionary Optimization on Constrained Problems. 449-463
John R. McDonnell, Donald E. Waagen: An Empirical Study of Recombination in Evolutionary Search. 465-478
Gerhard H. Koon, Anthony V. Sebald: Some Interesting Test Funcitons for Evaluating Evolutionary Programming Strategies. 479-499

Evolutionary Applications to VLSI and Part Placement

Kevin M. Nelson: A Comparison of Evolutionary Programming and Genetic Algorithms for Electronic Part Placement. 503-519
B. B. Prahlada Rao, Lalit M. Patnaik, R. C. Hansdah: An Extended Evolutionary Programming Algorithm for VLSI Channel Routing. 521-544

Sepcial Session on Applications of Evolutionary Computation to Biology and Biochemistry

Russell W. Anderson: Genetic Mechanisms Underlying the Baldwin Effect Are Evident in Natural Antibodies. 547-563
David B. Fogel, Gary B. Fogel: Evolutionary Stable Strategies Are Not Always Stable under Evolutionary Dynamics. 565-577
James B. Golden III, Ephrahim Garcia, Clark Tibbetts: Evolutionary Optimization of a Neural Network- based Signal Processor for Photometric Data from an Automated DNA Sequencer. 579-601
Mariusz Milik, Jeffrey Skolnick: An Object-Oriented Environment for Artifical Evolution of Protein Sequences: The Example of Rational Design of Transmembrane Sequences. 603-613
Daniel K. Gehlhaar, Gennady Verkhivker, Paul A. Rejto, David B. Fogel, Lawrence J. Fogel, Stephan T. Freer: Docking Conformationally Flexible Small Molecules into a Protein Binding Site through Evolutionary Programming. 615-627

Control Applications of Evolutionary Computation

Jong-Hwan Kim, Hyun-Sik Shim: Evolutionary Programming-Based Optimal Robust Locomotion Control of Autonomous Mobile Robots. 631-644
N. Saravanan: Evolutionary Programming for Synthesis of Optimal Controllers. 645-656
Daniel Delahaye, Jean-Marc Alliot, Marc Schoenauer, Jean-Loup Farges: Genetic Algorithms for Automatic Regrouping of Air Traffic Control Sectors. 657-672
Douglas A. Hoskins: An Iterated Function systems Approach to Emergence. 673-692

Genetic and Inductive Logic Programming

John R. Koza: Evolving the Architecture of a Multi-part Program in Genetic Programming Using Architecture-Altering Operations. 695-717
Justinian P. Rosca: Genetic Programming Exploratory Power and the Discovery of Functions. 719-736
Man Leung Wong, Kwong-Sak Leung: An Adaptive Inductive Logic Programming System Using Genetic Programming. 737-752
Antonella Giani, Fabrizio Baiardi, Antonina Starita: PANIC: A Parallel Evolutionary Rule Based System. 753-771
Yeong-Joon Kim, Christoph F. Eick: Multi-rule-set Decision-making Schemes for a Genetic Algorithm Learning Environment for Classification Tasks. 773-788
Yuji Sato, Tatsuo Ochiai: 2-D Genetic Algorithms for Determining Neural Network Structure and Weights. 789-804