{"id":595,"date":"2024-03-18T17:31:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T17:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/?p=595"},"modified":"2024-12-08T10:23:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T10:23:01","slug":"volume-17-issue-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/2024\/03\/18\/volume-17-issue-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 17, Issue 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background is-vertical is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Editorial<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the first 2024 (Spring) issue of the SIGEvolution newsletter! We start with an informed report on GECCO 2023 sustainability, prepared by a diverse team including engaged students. Our featured image, from this report, illustrates the timeline of GECCO locations.  We follow with an overview of recent updates to searching the rich and complete Genetic Programming Bibliography. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This issue also shares a memoir of Jeffrey Horn (1963-2024) highlighting his contributions to evolutionary computation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We conclude with the usual announcements, forthcoming events and call for submissions. Remember to get in touch if you&#8217;d like to contribute or have suggestions for future issues of the newsletter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Gabriela Ochoa (Editor)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_24_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-transparent\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/2024\/03\/18\/volume-17-issue-1\/#Sustainability_of_GECCO_2023\" title=\"Sustainability of GECCO 2023\">Sustainability of GECCO 2023<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/2024\/03\/18\/volume-17-issue-1\/#Searching_the_Genetic_Programming_Bibliography\" title=\"Searching the Genetic Programming Bibliography\">Searching the Genetic Programming Bibliography<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/2024\/03\/18\/volume-17-issue-1\/#Remembering_Jeffrey_Horn_1963-2024\" title=\"Remembering Jeffrey Horn (1963-2024)\">Remembering Jeffrey Horn (1963-2024)<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/2024\/03\/18\/volume-17-issue-1\/#Announcements\" title=\"Announcements\">Announcements<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/2024\/03\/18\/volume-17-issue-1\/#Forthcoming_Events\" title=\"Forthcoming Events\">Forthcoming Events<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/2024\/03\/18\/volume-17-issue-1\/#Call_for_Submissions\" title=\"Call for Submissions\">Call for Submissions<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/2024\/03\/18\/volume-17-issue-1\/#About_this_Newsletter\" title=\"About this Newsletter\">About this Newsletter<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1 class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Sustainability_of_GECCO_2023\"><\/span>Sustainability of GECCO 2023<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By Leonor Reigada, Jo\u00e3o Vasconcelos, Marco Rodrigues, Jo\u00e3o Pereira, Sara Silva and Carla Silva <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic&#8217;s constraints on travel, academics frequently traveled over 150,000 kilometers per person per year for conferences, board meetings, collaborations, fieldwork, seminars, and lectures [1]. It is therefore unsurprising that academic air travel is one of the primary sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for universities. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a significant shift in how we gather and connect, with massive annual conferences and small society meetings moving online. This transition has presented challenges and opportunities, but it has also highlighted the potential of virtual gatherings to bridge geographical and social divides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">GECCO and COVID-19<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As with most events amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a change was observed in GECCO from face-<br>to-face mode to virtual (online) and, after, to hybrid mode (a combination of face-to-face and<br>online modes), as shown in Figure 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In GECCO\u2019s history, since COVID-19, there has been a strong concern about sustainability, and<br>measures were enforced: avoiding plastic bottles, distributing free local collective transport<br>passes, reusing the participant identification plastic and lanyard, and encouraging physical<br>participation of nearby countries and virtual participation of faraway countries. In 2023, a task<br>force to compute GECCO&#8217;s CO<sub>2<\/sub>eq metric was created, and it was decided to use the internationally<br>recognized GHG protocol [2] and publicly available spreadsheet of the UK [3], based on ISO<br>14040\/44\/67 [4\u20136]. Those methodologies were adapted to events and other countries, to start<br>creating a solid methodology to compute the GHG emissions and track GECCO&#8217;s sustainability<br>evolution throughout time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gecco_sust_map_featured-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gecco_sust_map_featured-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gecco_sust_map_featured-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gecco_sust_map_featured-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gecco_sust_map_featured.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 1. Timeline of GECCO venue locations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Online mode advantages and disadvantages<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Figure 2 wraps up the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) of online conferences as perceived at the time of COVID-19 and registered in several documents [1, 7\u20139].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"972\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig2_swot-1024x972.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig2_swot-1024x972.png 1024w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig2_swot-300x285.png 300w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig2_swot-768x729.png 768w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig2_swot.png 1462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 2. SWOT of online meetings [1, 7\u20139]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Not every event organizer committee learned from the pandemic. They returned to normality, even with the positive aspects identified of online mode, and pursued the old, traditional, face-to-face gathering as opposed to the innovative format of hybridization. Despite the empirical knowledge that aviation plays an important role in aggravating global warming emissions, in face-to-face events, well-informed individuals on climate change are often frequent flyers which is highly contradictory. They often continue to combine attendance at conferences with tourism in a foreign country, aggravating the environmental impacts [10].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Measuring sustainability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Measuring sustainability is not a straightforward process since it has social, economic, and environmental aspects embedded. We can also see how intricate sustainability aspects are in the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG) that are related to each other and have more than 150 targets to monitor and observe the evolution of! [11]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several efforts to bring a sustainability metric forward in conference events, mostly related to GHG emissions with global warming impacts (expressed in CO<sub>2 <\/sub>equivalents, i.e., having all gases with global warming potential combined and converted into CO<sub>2<\/sub>), under the UNSDG 13 &#8211; Climate Action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem is that even with only one metric, CO<sub>2<\/sub>eq, there are differences in approaches that make comparison of absolute numbers of different events deceiving. Nevertheless, the typical range of the numbers and the identification of the \u201cHOT-SPOT\u201d, causing most of the impact, could be assessed. If we grab two handfuls of scientific studies, related to different international conferences, we can observe the face-to-face, online, and hybrid modes typical number ranges, and \u201cHOT-SPOT\u201d identification, Fig. 3, with hybrid-mode GECCO 2023 represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hybrid events&#8217; carbon footprint is highly dependent on the percentage of online participants and their country of origin (air travel distance). Air travel is clearly the \u201cHOT-SPOT\u201d for face-to-face and hybrid events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On average, the carbon footprint of the face-to-face mode is 400 times higher than the online mode. Which is a considerable difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GECCO 2023 had 1094 kg CO<sub>2<\/sub>eq\/in-person participant and 19 kg CO<sub>2<\/sub>eq\/online participant, i.e., an overall impact of 890 kg CO<sub>2<\/sub>eq\/participant, 86% due to transport (mostly international flights with distances higher than 5,000 km). Even so, going hybrid, GECCO 2023 avoided the emissions of 200 tons of CO<sub>2<\/sub>eq to the atmosphere. To \u201coffset\u201d the hybrid mode GECCO 2023 emissions would require the activity of 24,350 trees for a year (an area equivalent to 70 football fields).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig3a-sust-1-1024x585.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig3a-sust-1-1024x585.png 1024w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig3a-sust-1-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig3a-sust-1-768x439.png 768w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig3a-sust-1.png 1390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>(a)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"626\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig3b-sust-1024x626.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig3b-sust-1024x626.png 1024w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig3b-sust-300x183.png 300w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig3b-sust-768x469.png 768w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fig3b-sust.png 1172w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>(b)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Figure 3.  (a) Typical ranges of values for GHG emissions: face-to-face; hybrid and online events. (b) Contributions to GHG emissions [12\u201318]. GECCO 2023 values are calculated by the authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Takeaway lesson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Unraveling more innovation in international conferences is possible. In the future, the hybridization of conferences [18] could take a new mode, featuring a network of physical hubs distributed throughout the globe. These hubs would serve as local gathering points for participants, reducing the need for air travel, fostering in-person interactions as well as maintaining the online positive aspects (Fig.2). Such a \u201cHybrid-with-Hubs\u201d approach would expand the conference&#8217;s audience even further, but surely would require a significant organizational effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The takeaway lesson here: as in all hurdles in our life there&#8217;s a positive side to it! A pandemic paved the way for <strong>more innovative, environmentally friendly,<\/strong> and <strong>inclusive<\/strong> conferences!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">References<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Jack, T.; Glover, A. Online conferencing in the midst of COVID-19: an \u201calready existing experiment\u201d in academic internationalization without air travel. Sustain. Sci. Pract. Policy 2021, 17, 292\u2013304.<\/li><li>Price, M. Science. April 2020,.<\/li><li>Bonifati, A.; Guerrini, G.; Lutz, C.; Martens, W.; Mazilu, L.; Paton, N.W.; Vaz Salles, M.A.; Scholl, M.H.; Zhou, Y. Holding a Conference Online and Live due to Covid-19. ACM SIGMOD Rec. 2021, 49, 28\u201332.<\/li><li>McEvoy, N.L.; Trapani, J.; Tume, L.N. The changing face of scientific conferences: Face to face, online, or a hybrid model? Nurs. Crit. Care 2022, 27, 7\u20139.<\/li><li>G\u00f6ssling, S. Global environmental consequences of tourism. Glob. Environ. Chang. 2002, 12, 283\u2013302.<\/li><li>UN TRANSFORMING OUR WORLD: THE 2030 AGENDA FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. A\/RES\/70\/1.; 2015;<\/li><li>WBCSD and WRI A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard. Revised edition; 2013; ISBN 1-56973-568-9.<\/li><li>UKDEFRA 2021 Government Greenhouse Gas Conversion Factors for Company Reporting. Methodology Paper for Conversion factors Final Report.; 2021;<\/li><li>ISO BS EN ISO 14047: Environmental management &#8211; Life cycle assessment &#8211; Illustrative examples on how to apply ISO 14044 to impact assessment situations. Int. Organ. Stand. 2012.<\/li><li>ISO. Environmental management &#8211; Life cycle assessment &#8211; Principles and framework. Geneva, Switzerland: International Organization for Standardization. 2006.<\/li><li>ISO 14067:2018 Greenhouse gases \u2014 Carbon footprint of products \u2014 Requirements and guidelines for quantification.<\/li><li>Cavallin Toscani, A.; Atasu, A.; Van Wassenhove, L.N.; Vinelli, A. Life cycle assessment of in\u2010person, virtual, and hybrid academic conferences: New evidence and perspectives. J. Ind. Ecol. 2023, 27, 1461\u20131475.<\/li><li>Astudillo, M.F.; AzariJafari, H. Estimating the global warming emissions of the LCAXVII conference: connecting flights matter. Int. J. Life Cycle Assess. 2018, 23, 1512\u20131516.<\/li><li>Periyasamy, A.G.; Singh, A.; Ravindra, K. Carbon Emissions from Virtual and Physical Modes of Conference and Prospects for Carbon Neutrality: An Analysis From India. Air, Soil Water Res. 2022, 15, 117862212210932.<\/li><li>Wortzel, J.R.; Stashevsky, A.; Wortzel, J.D.; Mark, B.; Lewis, J.; Haase, E. Estimation of the Carbon Footprint Associated With Attendees of the American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting. JAMA Netw. Open 2021, 4, e2035641.<\/li><li>Stroud, J.T.; Feeley, K.J. Responsible academia: optimizing conference locations to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. Ecography (Cop.). 2015, 38, 402\u2013404.<\/li><li>Burtscher, L.; Barret, D.; Borkar, A.P.; Grinberg, V.; Jahnke, K.; Kendrew, S.; Maffey, G.; McCaughrean, M.J. The carbon footprint of large astronomy meetings. Nat. Astron. 2020, 4, 823\u2013825.<\/li><li>Tao, Y.; Steckel, D.; Kleme\u0161, J.J.; You, F. Trend towards virtual and hybrid conferences may be an effective climate change mitigation strategy. Nat. Commun. 2021, 12, 7324.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Authors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sust-authors-1024x600.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sust-authors-1024x600.png 1024w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sust-authors-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sust-authors-768x450.png 768w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sust-authors-1536x899.png 1536w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/sust-authors.png 1858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leonor Reigada<\/strong> (left), <strong>Jo\u00e3o Vasconcelos<\/strong>, <strong>Marco Rodrigues<\/strong> (right), Bachelor&#8217;s students, FCUL, Portugal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are <a href=\"https:\/\/fenix.ciencias.ulisboa.pt\/degrees\/leea\">Energy and Environment Eng. Bachelo<\/a>r students in the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. Our Bachelor&#8217;s research project supervised by Professor Carla Silva was to create a first approach to a harmonized carbon footprint calculator for conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jo\u00e3o Pereira<\/strong>, MSc student, FCUL, Portugal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am an <a href=\"https:\/\/fenix.ciencias.ulisboa.pt\/degrees\/meea,\">Energy and Environment Eng. MSc<\/a> student in the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, under the supervision of Professor Carla Silva. My thesis evaluates the carbon footprint of several face-to-face and hybrid events, assesses the representativeness of conference surveys, and proposes a simplified approach to minimize the environmental impact of future events through a face-to-face HUB network for hybrid events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sara Silva<\/strong>, GECCO 2023 data provider and reviewer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sara Silva is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon and a researcher at LASIGE, Portugal. Her main research area is evolutionary machine learning applied in remote sensing and in bioinformatics. In 2018 she received the EvoStar Award for Outstanding Contribution to Evolutionary Computation in Europe by the Society for the Promotion of Evolutionary Computation in Europe and its Surroundings (SPECIES). In 2023 she was General Chair of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), held in Lisbon, Portugal, in hybrid mode. She is member of the executive boards of both SPECIES and ACM SIGEVO. She created the MATLAB Genetic Programming Toolbox (GPLAB) and co-authored the recently published book &#8220;Lectures on Intelligent Systems&#8221; by Springer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Carla Silva<\/strong>, Sustainability team supervisor and Coordinator of the Master program Energy and Environment Eng. FCUL, Portugal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Carla Silva holds a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 from University of Lisbon (UL), Portugal. She was a senior researcher at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering 2008 to 2015. Since 2016 she is Professor at the Department of Geographic, Geophysics and Energy Engineering of the Faculty of Sciences of University of Lisbon. She teaches, in the 1<sup>st <\/sup>and 2<sup>nd<\/sup> cycles of Energy and Environment Eng. and in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> cycle in the Doctoral program Sustainable Energy Systems. She has successfully supervised 60 MSc and 10 PhD students. She is a researcher at Instituto Dom Luiz (IDL) since 2016 with several <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.pt\/citations?hl=pt-PT&amp;user=I8vPC5YAAAAJ\">publications<\/a>. Areas of interest are: complex system energy and emission analysis; biorefinery; circular economy; carbon footprint; life cycle assessment; indicators for sustainable mobility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Searching_the_Genetic_Programming_Bibliography\"><\/span>Searching the Genetic Programming Bibliography<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By W. B. Langdon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abstract<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Since February 2024 the genetic programming bibliography has supported free text queries to find GP papers via <a href=\"http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/gp-search\/ \">http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/gp-search\/ <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"999\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gp_search-1024x999.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gp_search-1024x999.png 1024w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gp_search-300x293.png 300w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gp_search-768x749.png 768w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/gp_search.png 1162w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Figure 1: GP Bibliography Web Browser Keyword Query Interface<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Genetic Programming bibliography aims to cover all papers, books, PhD theses, etc., on genetic programming. It was started by John Koza and first published in 1994 as Appendix F of his second GP book [1]. I took on the bibliography, and was invited by Pete Angeline to provide it as an appendix to the second &#8220;Advances in Genetic Programming&#8221; book, which he co-edited with Kim Kinnear (published in 1996 by MIT Press [2]). Since then the bibliography has been available online, firstly by FTP and now via HTTP. Whilst Steve Gustafson was based in the UK, he assisted in the maintenance and growth of the bibliography, including designing its home page. For almost all of the first twenty years it was hosted by The Birmingham University School of Computer Science. Then in the summer of 2019 it moved to its new <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/host http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">host http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk<\/a>, back in the Computer Science department of University College, London. Since the autumn of 2019, with the support of Jason Moore, the Perelman School of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania has hosted a mirror of the bibliography and supporting web pages: <a href=\"http:\/\/gpbib.pmacs.upenn.edu\">http:\/\/gpbib.pmacs.upenn.edu<\/a>. The ACM\u2019s Special Interest Group on Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO)\u2019s newsletter SIGEVOlution [4, 5] and the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines and other journals have published articles on the GP bibliography [3, 7, 8, 6] or analysis of data derived from it [9, 11, 10].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Online Data, Web Searches and Unavailable Traditional Queries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole bibliography is held in a single bibtex file <a href=\"http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/gp-bibliography.bib\">gp-bibliography.bib<\/a>. At the time of writing, it contains 17, 921 entries (16,696 directly related to genetic programming), 38 MBytes. Originally the intention was <em>gp-bibliography.bib<\/em> would just be used as a bibtex file with references being extracted when people wrote papers in LATEX. However uses of the bibliography have expanded. Although many bibliography tools support bibtex, copies in refer format <a href=\"http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/gp-bibliography.ref\">gp-bibliography.ref<\/a> and as plain text <a href=\"http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/gp-bib-alpha.txt\">gp-bib-alpha.txt<\/a> are also available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the most widely used interface is that each GP paper has its own HTML web page (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/gp-html\/koza_2003_gpt.html)\">http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/gp-html\/koza_2003_gpt.html)<\/a>. Almost all have hypertext links to the paper itself, its publisher and to its Google Scholar citations. Since these pages are freely available, they make attractive targets for web browsing and web searches and so the GP bibliography is easily searchable via Google and other web search engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For thirty years (1993\u20132023) The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Collection_of_Computer_Science_Bibliographies\">CCSB<\/a>) hosted hundreds of bibliographies, including the genetic programming bibliography. It provided a number of search interfaces, including allowing online searches using Lucerne syntax. Since the GP bibliography was part of CCSB, it could be searched in a sophisticated way using the CCSB\u2019s web interfaces. However CCSB was retired last summer and when it was switch off, its search interface for the GP bibliography was also removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The New Free Text Search Interface<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned in the previous section, the CCSB sophisticated search interface was removed in July 2023. The goal of its replacement <a href=\"http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/gp-search\/\">http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/gp-search\/<\/a> is to provide something lightweight, which is interactive, fast, immediate and without a learning curve, as shown in Figure 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the success of the co-author search interface <a href=\"http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/gp-coauthors\">http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/gp-coauthors<\/a>, the new free text search interface is also based in the user\u2019s device, using JavaScript running in a web browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Single Web Page<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The interface consists of a single<a href=\"http:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\/gp-search\/free_text_search.html\"> HTML web page<\/a> containing a web form with various input and output forms and buttons, see Figure 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Find Keywords<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The first input field allows the user to enter keywords to be searched for. <\/li><li>Stop words are ignored, e.g. words of one letter, &#8220;in&#8221;, &#8220;the&#8221;, &#8220;from\u201d and &#8220;model&#8221;. <\/li><li>Also since every paper will automatically match &#8220;genetic&#8221; &#8220;algorithms&#8221; and programming&#8221; (after all this is a bibliography dedicated to Genetic Programming) these and &#8220;gp&#8221; are ignored. <\/li><li>To avoid overly long time consuming searches, queries that match more than 1000 papers are cut short.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Limiting the number of matches<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>By default, up to ten hits are displayed. The &#8220;\u2264hits&#8221; input field allows the number of papers displayed to be changed (up to a maximum of 100).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Types of output<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>There are 3 types of output: brief, terse, and full, as radio buttons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>brief<\/strong>. The brief display requires no further interaction from the host (or mirror) and simply displays the bibtex key of the matching GP paper and gives a hyperlink to its web page within the GP bibliography.<\/li><li><strong>terse<\/strong>. The terse output format shows fragments of the matching paper\u2019s entry with the matching parts highlighted. There is also a hyperlink to the corresponding full web page. This is the default.<\/li><li><strong>full<\/strong>. Shows the complete bibtex of the matching GP paper. This often includes links to the paper itself, the publisher of the article and to its Google Scholar citations.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matching by year<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The lower two input areas allow the user to specify the years they are interested in. Years are four digit numbers.<\/li><li>The up buttons ^ increase the year by one. The down buttons V decrease it by one. To allow easy sweeps of papers published in a range of years, the central ^\/V buttons increment or decrement both before and after years by the same amount.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Search summary statistics<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The output display reflects the query (without stop words) in the order the query\u2019s words are used, the number of matching papers displayed and the total number of matches. If (e.g. for speed) the search is truncated, so that the number of matches is not known, a + is appended. (The total number of searches is given in square brackets [ ] but it is often only useful for debugging.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ordering Results<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The interface attempts to display the best matches at the top of the list of entries. This ordering is based on a heuristic which weights hits with matches that occur together more highly, matches on titles above those on keywords, above those on abstracts. Matches in long abstracts carry less weight but matches against exact words or matches which match case exactly are up weighted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Feedback<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be great to hear of people\u2019s experiences with the new interface, bug reports, errors and future ideas for the search tool or for the GP bibliography in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked a number of authors of recent computer science surveys in various fields unrelated to Genetic Programming how they used other online search interfaces, such as those provided by DBLP, IEEE Xplore, the ACM Digital Library. The most useful feature seemed to be the ability to search by keywords. This is what the new interface provides. Its underlying data structures are public and so interested parties could build additional features on top of them. Mainstream digital libraries and online bibliographies include other tools, which the authors of surveys found useful but which are not included in the GP bibliography or only indirectly supported by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps the SIGEvolution newsletter could be a venue to enable everyone to hear of people\u2019s experiences with the new search tool and to know of their thoughts on it or possible extensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adding Your GP Papers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Genetic Programming bibliography has long had a web interface allowing authors to provide missing GP papers, however in practice the easiest way is simply to email a bibtex description of missing GP works to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Acknowledgements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I would like to thank Una-May O\u2019Reilly who first highlighted the need for a new search tool, Aymeric Blot who highlighted the problem of scaling existing web browser search interfaces from 200 papers to   20,000, Carmen Meinson who suggested stylish improvements and Farooq Karimi Zadeh, Justyna Petke, Carol Hanna, and UCL students, for testing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">References<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>[1] &nbsp;J. R. Koza. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genetic-programming.org\/gpbook2toc.html\">Genetic Programming II: Automatic Discovery of Reusable Programs<\/a>. MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, May 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[2] &nbsp;W. B. Langdon. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.7551\/mitpress\/1109.003.0033\">A bibliography for genetic programming<\/a>. In P. J. Angeline and K. E. Kinnear, Jr., editors, Advances in Genetic Programming 2, appendix B, pages 507\u2013531. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[3] &nbsp;W. B. Langdon. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1023\/A:1010028616099\">Genetic programming and evolvable machines: Books and other resources<\/a>. <em>Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines<\/em>, 1(1\/2):165\u2013169, Apr. 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[4] &nbsp;W. B. Langdon. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1145\/1229735.1229738\">Web usage of the GP bibliography<\/a>. <em>SIGEVOlution newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation<\/em>, 1(4):16\u201321, Dec. 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[5] &nbsp;W. B. Langdon. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1145\/2661740.2661742\">News of the GP bibliography<\/a>. <em>SIGEVOlution newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation<\/em>, 6(3-4):12\u201316, July 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[6] &nbsp;W. B. Langdon. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s10710-019-09344-6\">Genetic programming and evolvable machines at 20<\/a>. <em>Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines<\/em>, 21(1-2):205\u2013217, June 2020. Twentieth Anniversary Issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[7] &nbsp;W. B. Langdon and S. Gustafson. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s10710-005-6165-9\">Genetic programming and evolvable machines: Five years of reviews.<\/a> <em>Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines<\/em>, 6(2):221\u2013228, June 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[8] W. B. Langdon and S. M. Gustafson. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s10710-010-9111-4\">Genetic programming and evolvable machines: ten years of reviews<\/a>. <em>Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines<\/em>, 11(3\/4):321\u2013338, Sept. 2010. Tenth Anniversary Issue: Progress in Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[9] W. B. Langdon, R. Poli, and W. Banzhaf. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s10710-008-9060-3\">An eigen analysis of the GP community<\/a>. <em>Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines<\/em>, 9(3):171\u2013182, Sept. 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[10] M. Tomassini and L. Luthi. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.physa.2007.07.028\">Empirical analysis of the evolution of a scientific collaboration network<\/a>. <em>Physica A<\/em>, 385:750\u2013764, 2007. Available online 25 July 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[11] M. Tomassini, L. Luthi, M. Giacobini, and W. B. Langdon. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/s10710-006-9018-2\">The structure of the genetic programming collaboration network<\/a>. <em>Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines,<\/em> 8(1):97\u2013103, Mar. 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Remembering_Jeffrey_Horn_1963-2024\"><\/span>Remembering Jeffrey Horn (1963-2024)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Kalyanmoy Deb and David E. Goldberg and W. B. Langdon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\">Kalyanmoy Deb and  David E. Goldberg<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"1004\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/JeffHorn-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-641 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/JeffHorn-1.png 687w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/JeffHorn-1-205x300.png 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>It is with considerable sadness that we inform the genetic and evolutionary computation (GEC) community that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeffrey-horn-652104199\/\">Jeffrey Horn<\/a>, (61) passed away on February 5, 2024 at Negaunee, Michigan. Jeff attended Cornell University for his undergraduate studies and the University of Illinois in Computer Science for his master\u2019s and doctoral studies. While at Illinois he was an early member of the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL), directed by Prof. David E. Goldberg. He joined the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Northern Michigan University in 1996. Students of NMU remember him as a caring teacher and friend.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>He is remembered for his research in genetic algorithms and evolutionary computation, particularly his work in evolutionary multi-objective optimization (EMO), understanding problem difficulty, and the evolution of cooperative co-solutions. His 1994 study on niched Pareto genetic algorithm (NPGA) received more than 4,000 Google Scholar citations and is one of the three earliest EMO algorithms which propelled the EMO field forward. His 2001 application of NPGA to ground water remediation system design was one of the early practical applications of EMO algorithms. Besides his contributions in EMO and its applications, he was passionate in understanding ways to form stable niches within evolving populations to find multiple optimal solutions. He constructed deceptive and long path problems to have a deeper understanding of the working of genetic algorithms. He also contributed to evolutionary robotics, artificial life, and applied evolutionary computation to shape nesting problems and in games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Gabriele Burkhard, and his children Thorin and Ellissa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\">W. B. Langdon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I had met Jeff several times at evolutionary computation events, eg. PPSN. The first time we met was at the first genetic programming conference organised by John Koza in Stanford University in 1996, whilst I was still a PhD student. Somehow I had wangled an invitation to the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms<br>workshop (the oh so poetic <a href=\"https:\/\/cseweb.ucsd.edu\/~rik\/foga4\/\">FOGA 4)<\/a>  This was being organised by Rik Belew in San Diego, the other end of California but I had not a plan to get there. In stepped Jeff, he had been at GP&#8217;96 and had a real paper to present at FOGA and offered me a lift!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"435\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/californ.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-692 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/californ.jpeg 435w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/californ-300x206.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>This was a great road trip. We ignored the main highway and took the scenic U.S. Route 101 along the California Pacific coast, stopping to have a fantastic lunch (see photo), making Los Angeles about dusk and checking into a motel. Jeff had friends in LA and I remember reading to their son whilst they and Jeff caught up.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Next morning onto San Diego getting the rental back more-or-less in time. Jeff was always softly spoken but I remember him being very enthusiastic about the upper peninsula where he taught after his PhD with David Goldberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Announcements\"><\/span>Announcements<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\">ACM TELO Special Issue on Explainable AI in Evolutionary Computation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:24% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"302\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TELO.Cover_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-636 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TELO.Cover_.jpg 302w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/TELO.Cover_-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Editors: <a href=\"https:\/\/dlnext.acm.org\/profile\/81309488239\">Juergen Branke<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dlnext.acm.org\/profile\/81333489997\">Manuel L\u00f3pez-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/\"> Association for Computing Machinery<\/a>, New York, NY, United States<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest issue of the ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization (<a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/journal\/telo\">TELO<\/a>), Volume 4, Issue 1, is a special issue on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dlnext.acm.org\/toc\/telo\/current\">Explainable AI in Evolutionary Computation<\/a>&#8220;, and the table of contents is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Introduction to the Special Issue on Explainable AI in Evolutionary Computation. J.  Bacardit, A. Brownlee, S. Cagnoni, G. Iacca, J. McCall, D. Walker Article No.: 1, pp 1\u20132.  <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3649144\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3649144<\/a><\/li><li>A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Approach to Discover Explainability Tradeoffs when Using Linear Regression to Effectively Model the Dynamic Thermal Behaviour of Electrical Machines. T. M. Banda, A. C. Z\u0103voianu, A. Petrovski, D. W\u00f6ckinger, G. Bramerdorfer Article No.: 3, pp 1\u201316. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3597618  \">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3597618<\/a><\/li><li>Exploring the Explainable Aspects and Performance of a Learnable Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Method G. Misitano. Article No.: 4, pp 1\u201339. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3626104\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3626104<\/a><\/li><li>An Analysis of the Ingredients for Learning Interpretable Symbolic Regression Models with Human-in-the-loop and Genetic Programming. G. Nadizar, L. Rovito, A. De Lorenzo, E. Medvet, M. Virgolin. Article No.: 5, pp 1\u201330. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3643688\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/3643688<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\">TELO EICs Selected 2023 Featured Articles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Co-Editors-in-Chief<\/strong><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/dlnext.acm.org\/profile\/81309488239\">Juergen Branke<\/a>, Warwick Business School, UK<br><a href=\"https:\/\/dlnext.acm.org\/profile\/81333489997\">Manuel L\u00f3pez-Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/a>, University of Manchester, UK<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TELO EICs are pleased to announce the following 2023 Featured Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaestro.acm.org%2Ftrk%2Fclick%3Fref%3Dz16l2snue3_2-31373_0x340c93x08678&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cgoc%40cs.stir.ac.uk%7C6e9ac1f8a90a4cabd1a008dc2cd3fed2%7C4e8d09f7cc794ccb9149a4238dd17422%7C0%7C0%7C638434536224679022%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Qp%2FeIq7nLiou97wZxU7O4qpD4MDzng1xbcnHZD3VoZo%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Combining Evolution and Deep Reinforcement Learning for Policy Search: A Survey.<\/strong><\/a><br>This is the most systematic survey of recent works (since 2017) that combine Deep neuroevolution and Deep Reinforcement Learning. Anyone interest in those topics will find this paper to be essential reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaestro.acm.org%2Ftrk%2Fclick%3Fref%3Dz16l2snue3_2-31373_0x340c94x08678&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cgoc%40cs.stir.ac.uk%7C6e9ac1f8a90a4cabd1a008dc2cd3fed2%7C4e8d09f7cc794ccb9149a4238dd17422%7C0%7C0%7C638434536224679022%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=SZ7FSRddVtW6i%2BuhrpgwnzHUI0XxNAdPd6a7WJMC57o%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Empirical analysis of PGA-MAP-Elites for Neuroevolution in Uncertain Domains.<\/strong><\/a><br>Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithms are ideal for tackling optimization tasks that aim to produce diverse and innovative solutions, such as engineering design. PGA-MAP-Elites is a QD algorithm that overcomes the limitations of other QD algorithms by being applicable to high-dimensional spaces and uncertain environments. This paper provides a thorough empirical analysis of this powerful algorithm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaestro.acm.org%2Ftrk%2Fclick%3Fref%3Dz16l2snue3_2-31373_0x340c95x08678&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cgoc%40cs.stir.ac.uk%7C6e9ac1f8a90a4cabd1a008dc2cd3fed2%7C4e8d09f7cc794ccb9149a4238dd17422%7C0%7C0%7C638434536224835218%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=klITK9iz4YkFFRkn%2FCuoJFhzUh4Gwo%2FfImPkDaTG78Q%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Strategy with Worst-Case Ranking Approximation for Min\u2013Max Optimization and Its Application to Berthing Control Tasks.<\/strong><\/a><br>This paper proposes a variant of the well-known CMA-ES optimizer designed for Min-Max Black-box Optimization problems, in particular when the goal is to find the more robust solution (least risky). As an illustrative real-world application, the approach is applied to design a controller that realizes a fine control of a ship toward a target state with the least collision risk and minimum elapsed time. A candidate controller is evaluated using simulation under uncertainty. The proposed algorithm can be applied to other min-max black-box optimization problems under uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmaestro.acm.org%2Ftrk%2Fclick%3Fref%3Dz16l2snue3_2-31373_0x340c96x08678&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cgoc%40cs.stir.ac.uk%7C6e9ac1f8a90a4cabd1a008dc2cd3fed2%7C4e8d09f7cc794ccb9149a4238dd17422%7C0%7C0%7C638434536224835218%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=CLmduHPPNOAUp9Cgy3IBHk8UeabdYDS0jgpMoWxrU30%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Multi-Objective Hyperparameter Optimization in Machine Learning\u2014An Overview.<\/strong><\/a><br>Hyperparameter optimization is nowadays a standard step in machine learning (ML) pipelines and the basis of AutoML approaches. It is often the case that there are more than one performance metrics giving rise to a multi-objective problem. However, such approaches are often neglected in introductory texts on hyperparameter optimization. This paper provides an extensive survey of this topic that covers the domains of evolutionary algorithms and Bayesian optimization. It also illustrates the utility of multi-objective optimization in several specific ML applications, considering objectives such as operating conditions, prediction time, sparseness, fairness, interpretability, and robustness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Forthcoming_Events\"><\/span>Forthcoming Events<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:37% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2024\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/evo24-logo-small-date-1024x473.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-530 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/evo24-logo-small-date-1024x473.png 1024w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/evo24-logo-small-date-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/evo24-logo-small-date-768x355.png 768w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/evo24-logo-small-date.png 1535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2024\/\">Evostar&nbsp;2024<\/a> conferences are being held in&nbsp;<strong>Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom<\/strong>&nbsp;from 3 to 5 April 2024 in hybrid mode. The venue is the Department of Computer Science on Penglais Campus at Aberystwyth University. Read more about Evostar&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2024\/?page_id=7\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:37% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gecco-2024.sigevo.org\/HomePage\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GECCO-2024-LOGO-resized.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-532 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GECCO-2024-LOGO-resized.png 800w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GECCO-2024-LOGO-resized-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GECCO-2024-LOGO-resized-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GECCO-2024-LOGO-resized-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GECCO-2024-LOGO-resized-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GECCO-2024-LOGO-resized-600x600.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gecco-2024.sigevo.org\/HomePage\">GECCO 2024<\/a> &amp; Melbourne (hybrid), July 14 &#8211; 18, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) presents the latest high-quality results in genetic and evolutionary computation since 1999. Topics include: genetic algorithms, genetic programming, swarm intelligence, complex systems, evolutionary combinatorial optimization and metaheuristics, evolutionary machine learning, learning for evolutionary computation, evolutionary multiobjective optimization, evolutionary numerical optimization, neuroevolution, real world applications, search-based software engineering, theory, benchmarking, reproducibility, hybrids and more.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Call_for_Submissions\"><\/span>Call for Submissions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\">18th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN 2024)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ppsn2024.fh-ooe.at\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"384\" height=\"174\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PPSN_logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-651 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PPSN_logo.png 384w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/PPSN_logo-300x136.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>September 14 &#8211; 18, 2024<br>Hagenberg, Austria<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ppsn2024.fh-ooe.at\/calls\/\">Call for Papers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PPSN was originally designed to bring together researchers and practitioners in the field of Natural Computing, the study of computing approaches which are gleaned from natural models. Today, the conference series has evolved and welcomes works on all types of iterative optimization heuristics. Notably, we also welcome submissions on connections between search heuristics and machine learning or other artificial intelligence approaches. Submissions covering the entire spectrum of work, ranging from rigorously derived mathematical results to carefully crafted empirical studies, are invited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Important dates<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Paper submission due:&nbsp;April 5, 2024<\/li><li>Notification of acceptance:&nbsp;May 31, 2024<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\">Graph-based Genetic Programming Workshop<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/graphgp.com\/cfp\/\">Call for Papers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be held as part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (<a href=\"https:\/\/gecco-2024.sigevo.org\/HomePage\">GECCO<\/a>)<br>July 14-18, 2024 (Sunday &#8211; Thursday), Melbourne, Australia (Hybrid)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We invite submissions that present recent developments in graph-based Genetic Programming. The content of the submission must be either new original work or discuss new perspectives on recently published work. Submitting work that is in an early stage or in progress is welcomed and appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Important Dates<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Submission deadline: April 8, 2024<\/li><li>Notification: May 3, 2024<\/li><li>Camera-ready: May 10, 2024<\/li><li>Author\u2019s mandatory registration: TBD<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\">21th Annual (2024) &#8220;Humies&#8221; Awards<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.human-competitive.org\/call-for-entries\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"368\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/logo-humies.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-237 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/logo-humies.png 368w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/logo-humies-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>For Human-Competitive Results \u2013 Produced by Genetic and Evolutionary Computation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be held as part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (<a href=\"https:\/\/gecco-2024.sigevo.org\/HomePage\">GECCO<\/a>)<br>July 14-18, 2024 (Sunday &#8211; Thursday), Melbourne, Australia (Hybrid)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.human-competitive.org\/call-for-entries\">call for entries<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Entries are hereby solicited for awards totaling $10,000 for human-competitive results that have been produced by any form of genetic and evolutionary computation (including, but not limited to genetic algorithms, genetic programming, evolution strategies, evolutionary programming, learning classifier systems, grammatical evolution, gene expression programming, differential evolution, genetic improvement, etc.) and that have been published in the open, reviewed literature between the deadline for the previous competition and the deadline for the current competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Important Dates<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Friday,<\/strong> May 31, 2024: Deadline for entries (consisting of one TEXT file, PDF files for one or more papers, and possible &#8220;in press&#8221; documentation. Please send entries to goodman at msu dot edu<\/li><li><strong>Friday, June 14, 2024<\/strong>: Finalists will be notified by e-mail<\/li><li><strong>Friday, June 28, 2024<\/strong>: Finalists who will not be able to present in person must<br>submit a 10-minute video presentation to goodman at msu dot edu. Finalists who will present in person must submit a copy of their slides, for the advance use of the judges, to goodman at msu dot edu.<\/li><li><strong>July 14-18, 2024 (Sunday &#8211; Thursday):<\/strong> GECCO conference (the schedule for the Humies session is not yet final, so please check the GECCO program as it is updated for the time of the Humies session). <\/li><li><strong>Thursday, July 18, 2024<\/strong>: Announcement of awards at the plenary session of the GECCO conference.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\">16th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation Theory and Applications (ECTA 2024)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ecta.scitevents.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ECTA-logo-1024x263.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-658 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ECTA-logo-1024x263.png 1024w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ECTA-logo-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ECTA-logo-768x198.png 768w, https:\/\/sigevo.hosting.acm.org\/public_html\/sigevolution\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/ECTA-logo.png 1244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>November 20 &#8211; 22, 2024. Porto, Portugal and Hybrid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecta.scitevents.org\/\">Call for Papers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Considered a subfield of computational intelligence focused on combinatorial optimisation problems, evolutionary computation is associated with systems that use computational models of evolutionary processes as the key elements in design and implementation, i.e. computational techniques which are based to some degree on the evolution of biological life in the natural world. A number of evolutionary computational models have been proposed, including evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, the evolution strategy, evolutionary programming and swarm intelligence. These techniques form the basis of several disciplines such as artificial life and evolutionary robotics.<br>This conference intends to be a major forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners interested in the study, analysis, design, modeling and implementation of evolvable systems, both theoretically and in a broad range of application fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Important Dates<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Regular Paper Submission: <strong>June 3, 2024<\/strong><\/li><li>Position Paper Submission: <strong>July 17, 2024<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\">Interpretable Control Competition<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giorgia-nadizar.github.io\/interpretable-control-competition\/\">Call for Submissions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be held as part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (<a href=\"https:\/\/gecco-2024.sigevo.org\/HomePage\">GECCO<\/a>)<br>July 14-18, 2024 (Sunday &#8211; Thursday), Melbourne, Australia (Hybrid)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Interpretable Control Competition is a part of GECCO 2024, challenging you to create control systems that are both effective and understandable. Opaque AI, while powerful, can be risky, especially for safety-critical applications. This competition seeks to find a balance between performance and interpretability. The competition focuses on two key goals: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Develop interpretable control systems for continuous and discrete tasks (Walker2D and 2048) <\/li><li>Establish methods for evaluating interpretability.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>You can use any technique you like, but we encourage the use of Evolutionary Computation (EC) for either policy generation or explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us to push the boundaries of interpretable AI for control systems!<br>Submission Deadline: <strong>June 13th, 2024. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See our website or Discord<br>(<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/dA8jpFVa9t\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/discord.gg\/dA8jpFVa9t<\/a>) for details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-light-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"About_this_Newsletter\"><\/span>About this Newsletter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column has-white-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>SIGEVOlution is the newsletter of SIGEVO, the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation. To join SIGEVO, please follow this link: [<a href=\"https:\/\/sig.sigevo.org\/index.html\/tiki-index.php?page=How%20to%20join%20SIGEVO\">WWW<\/a>].<br>We solicit contributions in the following categories:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Art<\/em>: Are you working with Evolutionary Art? We are always looking for nice evolutionary art for the cover page of the newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Short surveys and position papers<\/em>. We invite short surveys and position papers in EC and EC-related areas. We are also interested in applications of EC technologies that have solved interesting and important problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Software<\/em>. Are you a developer of a piece of EC software, and wish to tell us about it? Then send us a short summary or a short tutorial of your software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Lost Gems<\/em>. Did you read an interesting EC paper that, in your opinion, did not receive enough attention or should be rediscovered? Then send us a page about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Dissertations<\/em>. We invite short summaries, around a page, of theses in EC-related areas that have been recently discussed and are available online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Meetings Reports.<\/em> Did you participate in an interesting EC-related event? Would you be willing to tell us about it? Then send us a summary of the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Forthcoming Events.<\/em> If you have an EC event you wish to announce, this is the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>News and Announcements.<\/em> Is there anything you wish to announce, such as an employment vacancy? This is the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Letters.<\/em> If you want to ask or say something to SIGEVO members, please write us a letter!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Suggestions<\/em>. 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ACM will refer all requests for republication directly to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By submitting your article for distribution in any newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Groups listed below, you hereby grant to ACM the following non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide rights:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>to publish your work online or in print on the condition of acceptance by the editor<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>to include the article in the ACM Digital Library and in any Digital Library-related services<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>to allow users to make a personal copy of the article for noncommercial, educational, or research purposes<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>to upload your video and other supplemental material to the ACM Digital Library, the ACM YouTube channel, and the SIG newsletter site<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If third-party materials were used in your published work, supplemental material, or video, make sure that you have the necessary permissions to use those third-party materials in your work<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor<\/strong>: Gabriela Ochoa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sub-editor<\/strong>: James McDermott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Associate Editors<\/strong>: Emma Hart, Bill Langdon, Una-May O&#8217;Reilly, Nadarajen Veerapen, and Darrell Whitley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Editorial Welcome to the first 2024 (Spring) issue of the SIGEvolution newsletter! 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