{"id":34,"date":"2024-06-28T20:39:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T18:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2026\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:48:23","slug":"eurogp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2026\/eurogp\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroGP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/evo_202617-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/evo_202617-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/evo_202617-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/evo_202617-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/evo_202617-1536x768.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/evo_202617-2048x1024.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The 29th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2026 conference will take place as part of EvoStar (Evo*).<br><br>EuroGP&nbsp;is the premier annual conference on Genetic Programming (GP), the oldest and the only meeting worldwide devoted specifically to this branch of evolutionary computation. It is always a high-quality, enjoyable, friendly event, attracting participants from all continents, and offering excellent opportunities for networking, informal contact, and exchange of ideas with fellow researchers. It will feature a mixture of oral presentations and poster sessions and invited keynote speakers. EuroGP&nbsp;is featured in the conference ranking database&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/portal.core.edu.au\/conf-ranks\/481\/\">CORE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can consult the proceedings of previous events at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/conference\/eurogp\">EuroGP Conference Proceedings in SpringerLink<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A comprehensive bibliography of genetic programming literature and links to related material is accessible at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk\">Genetic Programming Bibliography<\/a>&nbsp;web page, part of the Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies maintained and managed by William Langdon, Steven Gustafson, and John Koza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Download the CFP in PDF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2026\/flyers\/eurogp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NEW<\/strong>. You can download the proceedings of EuroGP 2026 following <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/9783032230041\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conference Chairs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Luca Manzoni<\/strong><br>Universit\u00e0 degli studi di Trieste, Italy<br><em><em>lmanzoni(at)units.it<\/em><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Sylvain Cussat-Blanc<\/strong><br>Univeristy of Toulouse, France<br><em>sylvain.cussat-blanc(at)irit.fr<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publication Chair<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Qi Chen<\/strong><br>Victoria University of Wellington, New Zeeland<br><em>qi.chen (at) vuw.ac.nz<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Interest and Contributions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics to be covered include, but is not limited to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Methodological advances:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Algorithms, representations, and operators for GP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Surrogate models and fitness approximation in GP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Explainability and interpretability in GP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GP representations: tree-based, linear, graph-based, grammar-based<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evolutionary design<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multiple populations, coevolution, and modularity in GP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multi-objective GP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Theoretical developments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Infrastructure and Evaluation Methodologies:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Benchmarking frameworks and reproducibility in GP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scalable, parallel, and distributed GP systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GP in embedded and resource-constrained environments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tools and techniques for visualization and analysis tools of GP systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meta-evolution and Self-adaptation:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Self-adaptive and self-configuring GP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>AutoML and GP-based pipeline optimization<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Meta-learning and evolution of GP parameters and operators<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Applications:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GP for scientific discovery and symbolic modeling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GP for continuous control and evolutionary robotics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Real-world applications of GP in medicine, finance, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Evolvable hardware<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>GP for data privacy, security, and adversarial robustness<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Genetic improvement and GP for software engineering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program synthesis and inductive programming via GP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hybrid and Unconventional Approaches:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hybridization of GP with other machine learning methods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neuroevolution and neural-GP hybrids<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Integration of GP with swarm intelligence or other evolutionary paradigms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unconventional GP paradigms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open-ended GP systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Submission Details<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. They will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The reviewing process will be&nbsp;<strong>double-blind, so please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evostar.org\/2026\/submit-paper\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"46\">these instructions<\/a> to submit a paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Programme Committee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<strong>Wolfgang Banzhaf<\/strong>, Michigan State University, USA<br>\n<strong>Ying Bi<\/strong>, Victoria University of Wellington, China<br>\n<strong>Stefano Cagnoni<\/strong>, University of Parma, Italy<br>\n<strong>Mauro Castelli<\/strong>, ISEGI,Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal<br>\n<strong>Qi Chen<\/strong>, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand<br>\n<strong>Ernesto Costa<\/strong>, University of Coimbra, Portugal<br>\n<strong>Andrea De Lorenzo<\/strong>, University of Trieste, Italy<br>\n<strong>Mario Giacobini<\/strong>, University of Torino, Italy<br>\n<strong>Jin-Kao Hao<\/strong>, University of Angers, France, France<br>\n<strong>Erik Hemberg<\/strong>, ALFA, USA<br>\n<strong>Malcolm Heywood<\/strong>, Dalhousie University, Canada<br>\n<strong>Ting Hu<\/strong>, Queen&#8217;s University, Canada<br>\n<strong>Zhixing Huang<\/strong>, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand<br>\n<strong>Giovanni Iacca<\/strong>, University of Trento, Italy<br>\n<strong>Domagoj Jakobovic<\/strong>, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia<br>\n<strong>Krzysztof Krawiec<\/strong>, Poznan University of Technology, Poland<br>\n<strong>W B Langdon<\/strong>, University College London, UK<br>\n<strong>Yuri Lavinas<\/strong>, University of Toulouse, France<br>\n<strong>Nuno Louren\u00e7o<\/strong>, University of Coimbra, CISUC, DEI, LASI, Portugal<br>\n<strong>Herve Luga<\/strong>, IRIT-UT1C, France<br>\n<strong>Evelyne Lutton<\/strong>, INRAE, France<br>\n<strong>James McDermott<\/strong>, University of Galway, Ireland<br>\n<strong>Eric Medvet<\/strong>, University of Trieste, Italy<br>\n<strong>Yi Mei<\/strong>, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand<br>\n<strong>Alberto Moraglio<\/strong>, University of Exeter, UK<br>\n<strong>Aidan Murphy<\/strong>, University College Dublin, Ireland<br>\n<strong>Fabr\u00edcio Olivetti De Fran\u00e7a<\/strong>, Universidade Federal do ABC &#8211; UFABC, Brazil<br>\n<strong>Gisele Pappa<\/strong>, UFMG, Brazil<br>\n<strong>Stjepan Picek<\/strong>, Radboud University, The Netherlands<br>\n<strong>Gloria Pietropolli<\/strong>, University of Trieste, Italy<br>\n<strong>Peter Rockett<\/strong>, The University of Sheffield, UK<br>\n<strong>Lukas Sekanina<\/strong>, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic<br>\n<strong>Sara Silva<\/strong>, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal<br>\n<strong>Moshe Sipper<\/strong>, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel<br>\n<strong>Ernesto Tarantino<\/strong>, ICAR-CNR, Italy<br>\n<strong>Alberto Tonda<\/strong>, INRA &#8211; France, France<br>\n<strong>Leonardo Trujillo<\/strong>, Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico de Tijuana, M\u00e9xico<br>\n<strong>Leonardo Vanneschi<\/strong>, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal<br>\n<strong>Dennis Wilson<\/strong>, ISAE-Supaero, France<br>\n<strong>Man Leung Wong<\/strong>, Lingnan University, Hong Kong<br>\n<strong>Mengjie Zhang<\/strong>, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand<br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 29th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP) 2026 conference will take place as part of EvoStar (Evo*). EuroGP&nbsp;is the premier annual conference on Genetic Programming (GP), the oldest and the only meeting worldwide devoted specifically to this branch of evolutionary computation. 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