"A Bradford book."

Contributors --Acknowledgments -- 1. An Introduction to the Third Volume / Lee Spector, William B. Langdon, Una-May O'Reilly, Peter J. Angelino -- I. Applications -- 2. An Automatic Software Re-Engineering Tool Based on Genetic Programming / Conor Ryan and Laur Ivan -- 3. CAD Surface Reconstruction from Digitized 3D Point Data with a Genetic Programming/Evolution Strategy Hybrid / Robert E. Keller, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Jorn Mehnen and Klaus Weinert -- 4. A Genetic Programming Approach for Robust Language Interpretation / Carolyn Penstein Rose -- 5. Time Series Modeling Using Genetic Programming: An Application to Rainfall-Runoff Models / Peter A. Whigham and Peter F. Crapper -- 6. Automatic Synthesis, Placement, and Routing of Electrical Circuits by Means of Genetic Programming / John R. Koza and Forest H. Bennett III -- 7. Quantum Computing Applications of Genetic Programming / Lee Spector, Howard Barnum, Herbert J. Bernstein and Nikhil Swamy -- II. Theory -- II. Theory -- 8. The Evolution of Size and Shape / William B. Langdon, Terry Soule, Riccardo Poli and James A. Foster -- 9. Fitness Distributions: Tools for Designing Efficient Evolutionary Computations / Christian Igel and Kumar Chellapilla -- 10. Analysis of Single-Node (Building) Blocks in Genetic Programming / Jason M. Daida, Robert R. Bertram, John A. Polito 2 and Stephen A. Stanhope -- 11. Rooted-Tree Schemata in Genetic Programming / Justinian P. Rosca and Dana H. Ballard -- III. Extensions -- III. Extensions -- 12. Efficient Evolution of Machine Code for CISC Architectures Using Instruction Blocks and Homologous Crossover / Peter Nordin, Wolfgang Banzhaf and Frank D. Francone -- 13. Sub-machine-code Genetic Programming / Riccardo Poli and William B. Langdon -- 14. The Internal Reinforcement of Evolving Algorithms / Astro Teller -- 15. Inductive Genetic Programming with Immune Network Dynamics / Nikolay I. Nikolaev, Hitoshi Iba and Vanio Slavov -- 16. A Self-Tuning Mechanism for Depth-Dependent Crossover / Takuyo Ito, Hitoshi Iba and Satoshi Sato -- 17. Genetic Recursive Regression for Modeling and Forecasting Real-World Chaotic Time Series / Geum Yong Lee -- 18. Co-evolutionary Fitness Switching: Learning Complex Collective Behaviors Using Genetic Programming / Byoung-Tak Zhang and Dong-Yeon Cho -- 19. Evolving Multiple Agents by Genetic Programming / Hitoshi Iba -- Index.