Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming at Stanford 1995

(Book of Student Papers from John Koza's Course at Stanford on Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming)


This page contains links to PDF files for the papers written by students describing their term projects in John Koza’s course on genetic algorithms and genetic programming at Stanford University (CS 426 / BMI 226) in Fall 1995 quarter.

This volume is in the Mathematics and Computer Science Library in the Main Quad at Stanford University.

These papers are available in book form from the Stanford University Bookstore by calling 650-329-1217 or 800-533-2670 or by writing Stanford Bookstore, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-3079 USA. The E-Mail address of the bookstore for mail orders is mailorder@bookstore.stanford.edu.  Be sure to refer to "Custom Publishing" when ordering these items to avoid confusion and to mention the ISBN number (or Stanford Bookstore order number), the exact title.


 

Evolving Efficient Algorithms by Genetic Programming: A Case Study in Sorting by Eric T. Bauer

 

  1

Using Genetic Algorithms and Convolution to Find Optimal Strategies in Games without Perfect Information by Joey Beheler

 

 11

Genetic Fitting: Evolutionary Search of Optimal Approximations for Discrete Functions by Luca Benini

 

 19

Location Independent Pattern Recognition using Genetic Programming by Markus M. Breunig

 

 29

Valid English Word Classifier Using Genetic Programming by King Choi Chan

 39

Optimizing Local Area Networks Using Genetic Algorithms by Andy Choi

 49

Predator-Prey Interactions in a Simulated World by Adam Clark

 59

Evolution of General Algorithmic Solutions for Simple Sliding Tile Puzzles by Thomas Dillon

 

 65

Evolving Effective Solutions in Effective Amounts of Time by David Engel

 76

The Application of Genetic Programming to Cooperative Movement Planning and Execution by John Hart

 

 86

Genetic Programming of Near Minimum Time Spacecraft Attitude Maneuvers by Brian Howley

 

 96

A Genetic Algorithm for a Stochastic Network Planning Problem by David Joffe

107

An Attempt to Evolve Cooperation Among Separately Evolved Structure in Genetic Programming by Bryan H. Johnson

 

117

Error Driven Parallelization of a Genetic Program by Sesha Kalyur

127

Behavior Learning and Individual Cooperation in Autonomous Agents as a Result of Interaction Dynamics with the Environment by Sejal Kamani

 

135

The Genetically Determined Dream Team by Mark Kanok

145

A Variable Complexity Genetic Algorithm for Job Allocation by Sanjay Kapoor

153

Using Genetic Algorithm and Decision Trees to produce a Hybrid Classification System by D'ondria L. Kennard

 

161

Development of Navigational Controllers for Vehicles in Highway Traffic Situations via Genetic Programming by Lisa A. Laane

 

171

Camera Placement for Optimal Visibility by Vui Chiap Lam

181

The Genetic Algorithm applied to Gate Sizing by Jeremy R. Levitt

191

An Evolutionary Approach to CPU Fault Isolation by Keith Mac Donald

199

Emergent Behavior in Traffic Light Controllers using Genetic Programming by Ari W. Mozes

209

The Hannibal Project by Carl Orthlieb

219

On the Use of Genetic Programming in Elevator Control Design by Dan Pietrasik

229

Evolution of Communication and Division of Labor via Genetic Programming by Hanno Sander

 

239

Genetic Algorithms Applied to Machine Language by Christian R. Shelton

249

An Empirical Comparison of 3 Population-Based Search Algorithms for the Traveling Salesman Problem by Sanjeev Singh

 

259

Discovering Patterns in Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata by Caz Taylor

269

Are Your Ready for Some Football? Genetically Produced Ratings for College Football Teams by Howard Thompson

 

279

Recognition and Reconstruction of Visibility Graphs Using a Genetic Algorithm by Marshall S. Veach

 

291

Genetic Evolution of Behavior-Oriented Robots by Thomas Willeke

301

Playing Tetris Using Genetic Programming by Michael Yurovitsky

309

Genetic Algorithms in the Solution of Assembly Line Balancing Problems by Greg Zaric

320

 

Appendix containing materials about the course

 

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· The home page of Genetic Programming Inc. at www.genetic-programming.com.

· For information about the field of genetic programming in general, visit www.genetic-programming.org

· The home page of John R. Koza at Genetic Programming Inc. (including online versions of most papers) and the home page of John R. Koza at Stanford University

· For information about John Koza’s course on genetic algorithms and genetic programming at Stanford University

· Information about the 1992 book Genetic Programming: On the Programming of Computers by Means of Natural Selection, the 1994 book Genetic Programming II: Automatic Discovery of Reusable Programs, the 1999 book Genetic Programming III: Darwinian Invention and Problem Solving, and the 2003 book Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence. Click here to read chapter 1 of Genetic Programming IV book in PDF format.

· For information on 3,198 papers (many on-line) on genetic programming (as of June 27, 2003) by over 900 authors, see William Langdon’s bibliography on genetic programming.

· For information on the Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines journal published by Kluwer Academic Publishers

· For information on the Genetic Programming book series from Kluwer Academic Publishers, see the Call For Book Proposals

· For information about the annual Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO) conference (which includes the annual GP conference) to be held on June 26–30, 2004 (Saturday – Wednesday) in Seattle and its sponsoring organization, the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC). For information about the annual Euro-Genetic-Programming Conference to be held on April 5-7, 2004 (Monday – Wednesday) at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra Portugal. For information about the 2003 and 2004 Genetic Programming Theory and Practice (GPTP) workshops held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. For information about Asia-Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming (ASPGP03) to be held in Canberra, Australia on December 8, 2003. For information about the annual NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware Conference (EH) to be held on June 24-26 (Thursday-Saturday), 2004 in Seattle.


Last updated on December 7, 2003