38 Completed Ph.D. Theses on Genetic Programming (as of October 1999)

Last updated December 24, 2003

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This list covers PhD theses on genetic programming (and, in a few cases, closely related theses involving the automated evolution of executable program structures of various types). This list does NOT cover PhD theses on evolutionary computation in general (such as genetic algorithms, genetic classifier systems, evolutionary programming, and evolution strategies). There is currently an effort being made by different groups in the EC community to create such a listing.

Angeline, Peter J. 1993. Evolutionary Algorithms and Emergent Intelligence. Ph.D. dissertation. Computer and Information Science Department. The Ohio State University.
Babovic, Vladan. 1996. Emergence, Evolution, Intelligence: Hydroinformatics. Ph.D. thesis. International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering and Technical University Delft, The Netherlands. Also published as the book Emergence, Evolution, Intelligence: Hydroinformatics. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Balkema Publishers.
Blickle, Tobias. 1997. Theory of Evolutionary Algorithms and Application to System Synthesis. TIK-Schriftenreihe Nr. 17. Zurich, Switzerland: vdf Hochschul Verlag AG and der ETH Zurich. ISBN 3-7281-2433-8.
Bruce, Wilker Shane. 1995. The Application of Genetic Programming to the Automatic Generation of Object-Oriented Programs. PhD Dissertation. School of Computer and Information Sciences. Nova Southeastern University.
Char, K. Govinda. 1998. Constructivist AI with Genetic Programming. Ph.D. thesis. Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. University of Glasgow.
Diplock, Gary. 1996. The Application of Evolutionary Computing Techniques to Spatial Interaction Modelling. PhD thesis. Leeds University.
Domingos, Roberto Pinheiro. 1997. Non-Linear Nuclear Engineering Models as an Application of Genetic Programming. COPPE / Universidade Federal Rio de Janeiro PEN, LMP. March/1997. http//www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/haven/2229/roberto.htm. nietzsche@uol.com.br or roberto@lmp.ufrj.br
Esparcia-Alcázar, Anna I. 1998. Genetic Programming for Adaptive Signal Processing. Ph.D. thesis. Department: Electronics and Electrical Engineering. University of Glasgow. July 1998.
Gathercole, Chris. 1998. An Investigation of Supervised Learning in Genetic Programming. Ph.D. thesis. University of Edinburgh.
Greene, Francis. 1997. Genetic Synthesis of Signal Processing Networks Utilizing Diploid/Dominance. Ph.D. thesis. Department of Electrical Engineering. University of Washington, Seattle.
Gritz, Larry. 1999. Evolutionary Controller Synthesis for 3-D Character Animation. PhD thesis. The George Washington University. Department of EECS. http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~graphics/papers/gritzdissert.html email: lg@pixar.com
Gruau, Frederic. 1994a. Neural Network Synthesis using Cellular Encoding and the Genetic Algorithm. PhD Thesis. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.
Handley, Simon. 1998. Automatically Discovering Solutions that Flexibly Combine Iterative and non-Iterative Computations. PhD thesis. Department of Computer Science. Stanford University.
Harris, Christopher. 1997. An Investigation into the Application of Genetic Programming Techniques to Signal Analysis and Feature Detection. PhD thesis. Department of Computer Science, University College London, University of London.
Haynes, Thomas. 1998. Collective Adaptation: The Sharing of Building Blocks. PhD thesis. University of Tulsa. Department of Mathematical and Computer Science. January 1998.
Jacob, Christian. 1995. MathEvolvica - Simulierte Evolution von Entwicklungsprogrammen der Natur. PhD Dissertation. Arbeitsberichte des Instituts fur Mathematische Maschinen und Datenverarbeitung (IMMD), Informatik. University of Erlangen. Erlangen, Germany. In German.
Jiang, M. 1992. A hierarchical genetic system for symbolic function identification. PhD Dissertation. University of Montana.
Langdon, William B. 1996c. Data Structures and Genetic Programming. PhD thesis. University College, London. Also published as Genetic Programming and Data Structures: Genetic Programming + Data Structures = Automatic Programming! Amsterdam: Kluwer.
Lee, Wei-Po. 1997. Evolving Robots: from Simple Behaviours to Complete Systems. Ph.D. thesis. Department of Artificial Intelligence. University of Edinburgh.
Marmelstein, Robert E. 1999. Evolving Compact Decision Rule Sets. PhD thesis. Air Force Institute of Technology. E-Mail: Robert.Marmelstein@afit.af.mil
Moore, Frank William. 1997. A methodology for Strategy Optimization Under Uncertainty. PhD thesis. Department of Computer Scienece and Engineering. Wright State University.
Nordin, Peter. 1997. Evolutionary Program Induction of Binary Machine Code and its Application. Munster, Germany: Krehl Verlag.
O'Reilly, Una-May. 1995. An Analysis of Genetic Programming. PhD Dissertation. Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Computer Science. Carleton University. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Oussaidene, Mouloud. 1996. Genetic Programming: Methodology, Parallelization and Applications. PhD thesis. Computer Science Departement. University of Geneva.
Rosca, Justinian P. 1997. Hierarchical Learning with Procedural Abstraction Mechanisms. PhD Thesis. Computer Science Department. University of Rochester.
Rose, Carolyn P., 1997. Robust Interactive Dialogue Interpretation. Ph.D. Dissertation. Language Technologies Insititute. Carnegie Mellon University. Technical Report CMU-LTI-97-151.
Roston, Gerald P. 1994. A Genetic Methodology for Configuration Design. Technical report CMU-RI-TR-94-42. Ph.D. Thesis. Mechanical Engineering. Carnegie Mellon University. December 1994.
Ryan, Conor. 1996. Reducing Premature Convergence in Evolutionary Algorithms. PhD Disseration. University College, Cork, Ireland.
Sherrah, Jamie. 1998. Automatic Feature Extraction for Pattern Recognition. PhD thesis. Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. July 1998. jamie@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
Siegel, Eric. 1998. Linguistic Indicators for Language Understanding: Using Machine Learning Methods to Combine Corpus-Based Indicators for Aspectual Classification of Clauses. Ph.D. thesis. Computer Science Department. Columbia University.
Soule, Terence. 1998. Code Growth in Genetic Programming. Ph.D. thesis. University of Idaho. Moscow, Idaho.
Tackett, Walter Alden. 1994. Recombination, Selection, and the Genetic Construction of Computer Programs. Ph. D. dissertation, University of Southern California. Computer Engineering Division. Electrical Engineering - Systems Department. Also available as Technical Report CENG 94-13, April 1994.
Taylor, Tim. 1999. From Artificial Evolution to Artificial Life. PhD Thesis. Division of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
Teich, Tobias. 1998. Optimierung von Maschinenbelegungsplänen unter Benutzung heuristischer Verfahren. PhD thesis. Technical University of Chemnitz. Department of of Economics. June 30. 1998. http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/wirtschaft/bwl7/mitarbeiter.html email: tobias.teich@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de
Teller, Astro. 1998. Algorithm Evolution with Internal Reinforcement for Signal Understanding. Ph.D. thesis. School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University.
Tunstel, Edward W. 1996. Adaptive Hierarchy of Distributed Fuzzy Control: Application to Behavior Control of Rovers. Ph.D. thesis. Electrical and Computer Engineering. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Werner , James Cunha. 1999. Active Noise Control in Ducts Using Genetic Algorithms. PhD thesis. Mechanical Engineering Department Sao Paulo University. September 24, 1999. [jamwer@uol.com.br]
Whigham, Peter Alexander. 1996. Grammatical Bias for Evolutionary Learning. PhD. dissertation. School of Computer Science, University College, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy.
Wong, Man Leung. 1995. Evolutionary Program Induction Directed by Logic Grammars. Ph.D. thesis. Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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· 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.

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· 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.