Conference Registration Form for
Genetic Programming 1998 Conference

July 22 - 25 (Wednesday - Saturday), 1998
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin USA


REGISTRATION FORM FOR GENETIC PROGRAMMING 1998 CONFERENCE
July 22 - 25 (Wednesday - Saturday), 1998 at University of Wisconsin - Madison, Wisconsin

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Conference registration fee includes admission to all conference sessions and events, one copy of conference proceedings book, attendance at 6 tutorials of your choice, syllabus books for your 6 tutorials, Wednesday evening welcoming wine and cheese reception, conference dinner reception, one copy of a book of late-breaking papers, 3 box lunches (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday), and coffee and refreshment breaks.

Conference proceedings will be mailed to registered attendees with U.S. mailing addresses via 2-day U.S. priority mail about 1 - 2 weeks prior to the conference at no extra charge (at addressee's risk). If you are uncertain as to whether you will be at the above address at that time or DO NOT WANT your proceedings mailed to you at the above address for any other reason, your copy of the proceedings will be held for you at the conference registration desk if you check here ____ .

Student - ACM, IEEE, SCS, or AAAI Member
___ $195 - Postmarked by May 1, 1998
___ $245 - Postmarked by July 3, 1998
___ $295 - Postmarked later or on-site

Regular - ACM, IEEE, SCS, or AAAI Member
___ $395 - Postmarked by May 1, 1998
___ $445 - Postmarked by July 3, 1998
___ $495 - Postmarked later or on-site

Student - Non-Member
___ $215 - Postmarked by May 1, 1998
___ $265 - Postmarked by July 3, 1998
___ $315 - Postmarked later or on-site

Regular - Non-Member
___ $415 - Postmarked by May 1, 1998
___ $465 - Postmarked by July 3, 1998
___ $515 - Postmarked later or on-site

Member Number: ACM # _________ IEEE # ________ AAAI # ______ SCS # _____

Students must send legible proof of full-time student status.

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TUTORIALS: Check off a box for one tutorial from each of the 6 rows:

Wednesday July 22 - 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM

___ Introduction to Genetic Algorithms - David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois
___ Genetic Programming with Linear Genomes - Wolfgang Banzhaf, University of Dortmund
___ Design of Electrical Circuits using Genetic Programming ­p; Forrest H Bennett III, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
___ Introduction to Genetic Programming - John Koza, Stanford University

Wednesday July 22 - 1:00 PM - 3: 15 PM

___Large-Scale Discrete Optimization via Parallel Genetic Algorithms - Robert R. Meyer, University of Wisconsin
___ Computing with DNA: An Introduction - Russell Deaton, University of Memphis and Stephen Karl, University of South Florida
___ Cellular Encoding - David Andre, University of California - Berkeley
___ Intelligent Agents - Vasant Honavar, Iowa State University

Wednesday July 22 - 3:45 PM - 6 PM

___ Inductive Logic Programming - Luc De Raedt, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Nada Lavrac, Jozef Stefan Institute
___ Introduction to Evolutionary Robotics - Takashi Gomi, Applied AI Systems, Inc.
___ Constrained Genetic Programming - Cezary Z. Janikow, University of Missouri - St. Louis
___ Bio-inspired Hardware Systems: A Phylogenetic, Ontogenetic, Epigenetic Approach - Moshe Sipper, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne

Thursday July 23 - 3:25 PM - 5:40 PM

___ Reinforcement Learning - Richard S. Sutton, University of Massachusetts
___ Cellular Programming: The Evolution Of Parallel Cellular Machines - Moshe Sipper, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne
___ Evolutionary Programming - Kumar Chellapilla, University of California - San Diego
___ Inherent Characteristics and Biases of Evolution in Genetic Programming - Justinian Rosca, Siemens Corporate Research

Friday July 24 - 3:25 PM - 5:40 PM

___ Cellular Neural Networks, the new CNN Universal Machine as a spatiotemporal array computer, and CNN applications - Tamas Roska, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the University of California at Berkeley
___ Probabilistic Incremental Program Evolution (PIPE) - Rafal Salustowicz, IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland
___ Evolution Strategies - Michael Herdy, Technical University of Berlin

Saturday July 25 - 9:15 AM - 11:30 AM

___ An Introduction to Evolutionary Computation - David B. Fogel, Natural Selection, Inc.
___ Advanced Genetic Programming - John Koza, Stanford University
___ Strongly Typed Genetic Programming - Thomas Haynes, Wichita State University
___ Ant Colony Optimization - Marco Dorigo, Universite' Libre de Bruxelles


No refunds will be made; however, we will transfer your registration to a person you designate upon notification.

SEND TO: GP-98 Conference, c/o American Association for Artificial Intelligence, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA. PHONE: 650-328-3123. FAX: 650-321-4457. E-mail for administrative matters: gp@aaai.org. WWW FOR GP-98: www.genetic-programming.org

Discounted Conference Registration Fees for AAAI, ACM, IEEE, and SCS Members

The conference registration fee is less if you are a member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Neural Network Council, of the IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM SIGART., Society for Computer Simulation (SCS), or IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. Contact them directly to become a member.


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