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About the authors

The authors are experts in genetic programming with long and distinguished
track records, and over 50 years of combined experience in both theory and
practice in GP, with collaborations extending over a decade.
Riccardo Poli is a Professor in the Department of Computing and Elec-
tronic Systems at Essex. He started his academic career as an electronic en-
gineer doing a PhD in biomedical image analysis to later become an expert
in the field of EC. He has published around 240 refereed papers and a book
(Langdon and Poli, 2002) on the theory and applications of genetic pro-
gramming, evolutionary algorithms, particle swarm optimisation, biomed-
ical engineering, brain-computer interfaces, neural networks, image/signal
processing, biology and psychology. He is a Fellow of the International So-
ciety for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (2003–), a recipient of the
EvoStar award for outstanding contributions to this field (2007), and an
ACM SIGEVO executive board member (2007–2013). He was co-founder
and co-chair of the European Conference on GP (1998–2000, 2003). He was
general chair (2004), track chair (2002, 2007), business committee member
(2005), and competition chair (2006) of ACM’s Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation Conference, co-chair of the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms
Workshop (2002) and technical chair of the International Workshop on Ant
Colony Optimisation and Swarm Intelligence (2006). He is an associate edi-
tor of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Evolutionary Compu-
tation and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research.
He is an advisory board member of the Journal on Artificial Evolution and
Applications and an editorial board member of Swarm Intelligence. He is a
member of the EPSRC Peer Review College, an EU expert evaluator and a
grant-proposal referee for Irish, Swiss and Italian funding bodies.
W. B. Langdon was research officer for the Central Electricity Research
Laboratories and project manager and technical coordinator for Logica be-
fore becoming a prolific, internationally recognised researcher (working at
UCL, Birmingham, CWI and Essex). He has written two books, edited
six more, and published over 80 papers in international conferences and
journals. He is the resource review editor for Genetic Programming and
Evolvable Machines and a member of the editorial board of Evolutionary