Ann Arbor, MI • May 18–20, 2017
Detailed schedule and presentation titles
Thursday 18 May, 2017
- 8:30a Coffee, juice, pastries, fruit
- 9:00a Bill Tozier Opening Remarks & Welcome
- 9:30a Keynote by Jeff Clune “A talk in two parts: AI Neuroscience, and Harnessing Illumination Algorithms”
- 10:30a Break
- 11:30a Steven Fine, Erik Hemberg and Krzysztof Krawiec: “Exploiting Subprograms in Genetic Programming” (presented remotely)
- 12:15p Discussion
- 12:30p Lunch in Room
- 1:30p Bogdan Burlacu, Michael Affenzeller, Michael Kommenda, Gabriel Kronberger, and Stephan Winkler: “Measuring Population Diversity and Convergence in Symbolic Regression via Schema Frequencies”
- 2:15p Michael Korns: “Genetic Programming Symbolic Classification: A Study”
- 3:00p Discussion and Break
- 3:30p Ryan J. Urbanowicz, Ben Yang, Jason H. Moore: “Co-evolving genetic programming trees and rules in a learning classifier system for problem driven machine learning”
- 4:15p Bill Tozier, Randal S. Olson and Wolfgang Banzhaf (with others): “The Next Fifteen Years of GPTP”
- 5:00p Discussion
- 5:30p End of Session
- 6:30p reconvene informally at various bars and restaurants
Friday 19 May, 2017
- 8:30a Coffee, juice, pastries, fruit
- 9:00a Opening Remarks & Welcome
- 9:30a Keynote by Kenneth Stanley: “New Directions in Open-Ended Evolution”
- 10:30a Break
- 10:45a Emily Dolson, Wolfgang Banzhaf and Charles Ofria: “Applying Ecological Principles to Genetic Programming”
- 11:30a Stjepan Picek, Erik Hemberg, Domagoj Jakobovic and Una-May O’Reilly: “Detecting DoS Attacks: A Genetic Programming Perspective”
- 12:15p Discussion
- 12:30p Lunch in Room
- 1:30p Lee Spector, William La Cava, Saul Shanabrook, and Thomas Helmuth: “Random Challenges in Parent Selection”
- 2:15p Keynote by Patrick Shafto: “Cooperative Inference in Humans and Machines”
- ?:??p Discussion and Break
- 3:30p Randal S. Olson, Moshe Sipper, William La Cava, Sharon Tartarone, Steven Vitale, Weixuan Fu, John H. Holmes, and Jason H. Moore: “A System for Accessible Artificial Intelligence”
- 4:15p Amir H Gandomi et al: “Genetic Programming for Big Data”
- 5:00p Discussion and group photo
- 5:30p End of Session
- 6:30p reconvene informally at various (even louder) bars and restaurants
Saturday 20 May, 2017
- 8:30a Coffee, juice, pastries, fruit
- 9:00a Opening Remarks & Welcome
- 9:30a Sarah Anne Troise and Thomas Helmuth: “Lexicase Selection with Weighted Shuffle”
- 10:30a Break
- 10:45a Stu Card and Zhiruo Zhao: “Evolution of Space-partitioning Forests for Anomaly Detection”
- 11:30a Big world-changing optimistic lightning talks (10 minutes each) and discussion(s)
- 12:30p Lunch in Room
- 1:30p End of Workshop
- 2:30p reconvene informally at various bars and restaurants