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Anniversary of Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming</b></p>
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</span></span>Alberto Moraglio, University of Exeter, UK <br>
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Poland <br>
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</span>Geometric Semantic Genetic Programming (GSGP) is a form of Genetic
Programming which is guaranteed to see a simple unimodal fitness landscape with
constant slope for any supervised machine learning task. It was derived using a
rigorous geometric theory of representations and search operators combined with
the notion of semantics of programs. In GSGP, crossover and mutation have
special semantic properties: offspring programs are guaranteed to have
behaviour intermediate to their parents’, and mutant programs’ behaviour is guaranteed
to be similar to that of the original program. The theory of GSGP reveals a
simple genotype-phenotype map between syntax and semantics of programs, leads
to simple syntactic implementations of these semantic search operators, and
provides a rigorous explanatory framework for its superior runtime performance.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Since its inception in 2012 [1], GSGP has been rapidly and
widely adopted by the Genetic Programming community at large: it has been
studied, both theoretically and empirically, successfully adopted in many
real-world application domains, improved and extended in many ways, and led to
a plethora of research publications by many research groups worldwide. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">We aim to celebrate the 10th anniversary of GSGP with a
special issue that consolidates and organises the ten years of work on GSGP by
the research community, and fosters further growth of this research area. We
envision that the special issue will cover a historical development of the
field and related areas, report on latest research as well as identify
challenges and reflections about future directions.<br>
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[1] Moraglio A., Krawiec K., Johnson C.G. (2012) Geometric Semantic Genetic
Programming. In: Coello C.A.C., Cutello V., Deb K., Forrest S., Nicosia G.,
Pavone M. (eds) Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN XII. PPSN 2012.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7491. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg</p>
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We would like to have three main types of submissions that help us, in various
ways, to recount the past, present and future of GSGP: papers covering the past
10 years (surveys), papers covering the present (research papers), and papers
covering the future (white papers outlining challenges and opportunities).
Topics of interest may include but are not limited to:<br>
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● Program domains (e.g., Boolean, Classification, Arithmetic,
Programs, Neural Networks)<br>
● Improved semantic operators, new semantic operators, approximate
semantic operators, self-adaptive semantic operators<br>
● Efficient implementations, parallel implementations,
implementations on dedicated hardware<br>
● Mathematical analysis and runtime analysis<br>
● Studies on generalisation and effect of noise <br>
● Real world applications and experimental benchmarking<br>
● Algorithmic extensions (e.g., hybridisation with local
search, multi-objective, diversity mechanisms) <br>
● New methods derived or inspired by GSGP</p>
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Initial reviews: 15 June 2023<br>
Resubmissions: 15 July 2023<br>
Final notifications: 1 September 2023</p>
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