Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines: Five Years of Reviews

Abstract

The journal, and in particular the resource reviews have been running for more than five years. Now is a good time to revisit our original goals [1], compare them with what the journal has achieved and make new plans. Section 2 onwards, updates the statistics on the state of the genetic programming, evolvable hardware and evolvable machines literature and electronic resources. 1. Five Years of Resource Reviews Excluding special issues, every issue of GP/EM has contained at least one review, making a total of 26. It was intended from the start that these would cover, not just books, but “resources ” in the wider sense, particularly, web pages, on-line resources, packages and products. We have reviewed 18 books, 5 edited collections, and two conference/workshop proceedings. We have also published an article on Internet based resources, one on software (albeit covering three packages) and reviewed one product. Topics have included not only genetic programming (14) and evolvable hardware (4) but also 8 other evolvable machine topics: evolutionary programming, evolutionary robotics, particle swarm optimisation, quantum computing, data mining, evolutionary design, as well as genetic algorithms (2). Articles have been written in the USA (8),