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ACM SIGEVO
ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
PredecessorISGEC
Formation2005; 21 years ago (2005)
TypeProfessional organization
HeadquartersACM
Location
  • New York City, USA
Region served
International
Services
  • Conferences
  • Journals
  • Awards
  • Grants
  • Newsletter
  • Networking
Chair
Peter Bosnan
Vice-Chair
Emma Hart
Main organ
Newsletter
Publication
ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization
Parent organization
ACM
WebsiteOfficial website

The ACM SIGEVO is a Special Interest Group of the Association of Computing Machinery for members of that organization who are practitioners, academics, students or others with interests in evolutionary computation and related algorithms.

History

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ACM SIGEVO was founded in 2005 when the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (ISGEC)[1] became an ACM Special Interest Group under its present title. The ISGEC had been formed in 1999 by the merger of the Genetic Programming conference organization with the International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA) leading to the first Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO).[2]

Membership

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Members of this SIG pay a small fee in addition to the ACM membership fee.[3] In return they have access to a quarterly online newsletter,[4] but more importantly can obtain reduced registration rates at the two conferences organised by ACM SIGEVO: GECCO[5] and the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms conference (FOGA).[6]

They can also access material on evolutionary computation and related topics in the ACM Digital Library.[7] In addition they can subscribe to email mailing lists in order to keep informed about news over time.[8]

For students, ACM SIGEVO sponsors Travel Awards for attendance at the GECCO Conference and FOGA (the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms conference). ACM SIGEVO also sponsors a Graduate Student Workshop.[8] ACM also sponsors Awards to be competed for by attendees at the conferences it organises.

Conferences

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ACM SIGEVO organises two major conferences in the field of evolutionary computation. The Genetic and Evolutionary Conference (GECCO) is held annually,[5] while the Foundations of Genetic Algorithms conference (FOGA)[6] is held biennially.

GECCO

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The first GECCO conference was held prior to the formation of ACM SIGEVO[2] but since 2005 (see History above) it has been organised annually by ACM SIGEVO. The latest (2025) was held in Málaga, Spain.[5][9] The next (2026) will be held in San José, Costa Rica.[10]

FOGA

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This article is about the computer science conference with the acronym FOGA. For the airport with that ICAO code, see FOGA.
Foundations of Genetic Algorithms
(FOGA)
StatusActive
GenreConference
FrequencyBiennial
Years active35
Inaugurated1990 (1990)
Most recent2025
Next event2027
AreaInternational
ActivityEvolutionary computation
Theoretical computer science
SponsorAssociation for Computing Machinery
SIGEVO

Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA) is a biennial peer-reviewed research conference focusing on the theoretical principles underlying genetic algorithms, other evolutionary algorithms and related heuristics. It is organized by ACM SIGEVO. Its relevance to the computer science research community has been reflected in an A-rating in the CORE computer science conference assessment system.

The Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA)[11] conference originated as a workshop in 1990[12] in order to create an opportunity for researchers on genetic algorithms and related areas of evolutionary computation to focus on the theoretical principles underlying their field. From the start its multi-day duration made it comparable to conferences in the field, and since 2015 its proceedings have used conference rather than workshop in their titles.

In 2005 ACM SIGEVO the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation was formed[13] and every FOGA conference since then has been supported by SIGEVO. The table below shows FOGA conferences by year, location, websites (where available) and publisher of proceedings. A citation follows the reference to the publisher giving the full details of each FOGA proceedings.

Papers accepted at recent conferences have been presented as digital or print posters in poster sessions at the conference,[14] before being published in written form in the conference proceedings.

FOGA is comparable in its multi-day duration to other conferences on evolutionary computation such as CEC, GECCO and PPSN. The main difference is that FOGA focuses on the theoretical basis of evolutionary computation and related subjects. While the above conferences devote some time to theory they also cover a wide range of other topics including competitions and applications.[15][16][17] This focus on theoretical computer science was reflected in the CORE[18] computer science conference assessment exercise,[19] where FOGA was given an A-ranking in the 2023 assessment.[20] GECCO[21] and PPSN[22] also obtained A-rankings, but many other conferences in the field of evolutionary computation obtained lower rankings. This suggests that FOGA is a relevant conference in its field, comparable with others including the much larger CEC or GECCO.

Foundations of Genetic Algorithms (FOGA) conferences
Year[23] Location[24] Website[25] Publisher[26]
1990 Bloomington No Morgan Kaufmann[12]
1992 Vail No Morgan Kaufmann[27]
1994 Estes Park No Morgan Kaufmann[28]
1996 San Diego No Morgan Kaufmann[29]
1998 Amsterdam No Morgan Kaufmann[30]
2000 Charlottesville No Morgan Kaufmann[31]
2002 Torremolinos No Morgan Kaufmann[32]
2005 Aizuwakamatsu No Springer[33]
2007 Mexico City Yes[34] Springer[35]
2009 Orlando Yes[36] ACM[37]
2011 Schwarzenberg Yes[38] ACM[39]
2013 Adelaide Yes[40] ACM[41]
2015 Aberystwyth No ACM[42]
2017 Copenhagen No ACM[43]
2019 Potsdam No ACM[44]
2021 Dornbirn[45] No ACM[46]
2023 Potsdam Yes[47] ACM[48]
2025 Leiden Yes[49] ACM[50]

Keynote speakers at past conferences have been:

Keynote speakers at FOGA conferences
Year Keynote speakers
2021[51] Adi Livnat & Tim Roughgarden
2023[52] Carola Doerr & José A. Lozano
2025[49] Joshua D. Knowles, Vedran Dunjko & Tobias Glasmachers

Awards

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ACM SIGEVO sponsors a number of awards.

SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award

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The SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award commenced in 2023,[53] and these awards are designed to recognise distinctive contributions to the field of evolutionary computation when evaluated over a period of at least 15 years. As a result many recipients to date are notable academics or industrial practitioners, and include Anne Auger, Kalyanmoy Deb, Stephanie Forrest, Emma Hart and Hans-Paul Schwefel.

SIGEVO Dissertation Award

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The SIGEVO Dissertation Award recognises thesis research in the field of evolutionary computation completed at least by the year prior to a GECCO conference.[54] Theses are submitted and reviewed by a panel that selects one winner and a maximum of two honourable mentions. Awards will be made to the winner and any others at the next GECCO conference.

SIGEVO Chair Award

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The SIGEVO Chair Award, established in 2016[55] is a lecture sponsored by ACM SIGEVO, to take place on the last day of the GECCO conference. It recognizes through the lectures that the lecturers are influential researchers in the field of evolutionary computation. The more recent lectures are available online. The 2024 Award winner was Una-May O'Reilly.[56]

SIGEVO Impact Award

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The SIGEVO Impact Award looks back to the GECCO conference ten years earlier and recognizes up to three papers a year which are considered by the current ACM SIGEVO Executive Committee to have had significant impact over the period since their first publication at the GECCO conference. An example (originally published in GECCO 2010[57]) received this award in 2020.[58]

GECCO Best Paper Award

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The ACM SIGEVO sponsors awards for the best papers presented at the GECCO conference. Because GECCO conferences have very many parallel tracks there are multiple awards recognising presentations in the different tracks. At GECCO 2025 Best Paper Awards were presented across 12 tracks.[59]

FOGA Best Paper Award

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The ACM SIGEVO sponsors awards for the best papers presented at the FOGA conference. Because FOGA operates on a single track, it is easier to compare papers. Since 2019 this Award has been made (suggesting only four awards up to the latest conference in 2025). ACM SIGEVO records the 2019 award.[60][61]

Humie Award

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The Humies Awards are rewards for the best form of human-competitive results using evolutionary computation or related algorithms and published in the wider literature (they do not need to be published at a conference or in a journal sponsored by ACM SIGEVO or even the ACM.) They were established through a gift from John Koza and have been in operation from 2004 to the present. The link with ACM SIGEVO is that the winners of the competition (submissions are evaluated in advance) are presented with Humie Awards at GECCO conferences. The Humie Awards website[62] provides full details for the rules and how to submit entries to the competition.

Journals

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ACM SIGEVO sponsors the main journal covering evolutionary computation published by the ACM: ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization.[63]

ACM SIGEVO refers[64] to the preceding ISGEC organisation (see History above) as sponsoring two other important journals in the field:

While these journals continue to be important in the field, the wording on the website of ACM SIGEVO[64] suggests that ACM SIGEVO is not involved in their publication.

References and notes

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  2. ^ a b "Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 1999". gecco 99. ISGEC. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
  3. ^ "How to join SIGEVO". SIGEVO Portal and Wiki: How to join SIGEVO. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  4. ^ Ochoa, Gabriela, ed. (2025). "Editorial". SIGEvolution. 18 (2). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. ISSN 1931-8499. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  5. ^ a b c "GECCO 2025 @ Málaga (hybrid)". GECCO 2025 Homepage. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  6. ^ a b "18th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms". ACM FOGA 2025. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  7. ^ "Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library". ACM Digital Library. Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  8. ^ a b "Membership Benefits". SIGEVO Portal and Wiki: Membership Benefits. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  9. ^ Ochoa, Gabriela, ed. (2025). GECCO '25: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3712256. ISBN 9798400714658. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  10. ^ "GECCO 2026 @ San José, Costa Rica (hybrid)". Homepage GECCO 2026. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 20 September 2025.
  11. ^ The acronym FOGA will usually be used rather than the full name of the conference later in this article in order to make it more concise.
  12. ^ a b Rawlins, Gregory JE, ed. (1991). Proceedings of the First Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms. Bloomington Campus, Indiana, USA, July 15-18 1990. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-1-55860-170-3. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  13. ^ "SIGEVO: The ACM Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computtion". SIGEVO Portal and Wiki: Home. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  14. ^ "FOGA 2025 Program" (PDF). foga-schedule.pdf. Universteit Leiden. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  15. ^ "IEEE 2023 Congress on Evolutionary Computation – July 1-5, 2023 – Chicago, USA". Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2023. IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  16. ^ "GECCO 2025 @ Málaga (hybrid): The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference July 14 - 18, 2025". GECCO 2025: Homepage. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  17. ^ "18th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature PPSN 2024 September 14 - 18, 2024 Hagenberg, Austria". PPSN 2024. University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  18. ^ CORE is now ICORE reflecting the international collaboration involved in the conference assessment exercise.
  19. ^ "ICORE Conference Portal". ICORE. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  20. ^ "ICORE Conference Portal: Foundations of Genetic Algoriths: FOGA". ICORE Conference Portal. ICORE. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  21. ^ "ICORE Conference Portal: GECCO". ICORE Conference Portal. ICORE. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  22. ^ "ICORE Conference Portal: PPSN". ICORE Conference Portal. ICORE. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  23. ^ Biennial except the three-year gap between 2002 and 2005.
  24. ^ Link to location only provided where possible ambiguity exists or further explanation is needed.
  25. ^ According to ACM SIGEVO no FOGA websites are available before 2007. Some after 2005 are not longer accessible when reviewed in 2025.
  26. ^ The publisher of the proceedings is given in the table. The link following shows the full reference to the proceedings.
  27. ^ Whitley, L Darrell, ed. (1993). Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms. Vail, Colorado, USA, July 26-29 1992. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-08-094832-4. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  28. ^ Whitley, L Darrell; Vose, Michael D, eds. (1995). Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms. Estes Park, Colorado, USA, July 31 - August 2 1994. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-1-55860-356-1. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  29. ^ Belew, Richard K; Vose, Michael D, eds. (1997). Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms. San Diego, CA, USA, August 5 1996. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1-55860-460-X.
  30. ^ Banzhaf, Wolfgang; Reeves, Colin R, eds. (1999). Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 24-28, 1998. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1-55860-559-2.
  31. ^ Martin, Worthy N; Spears, William M, eds. (2001). Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Charlottesville, VA, USA, July 21-23, 2000. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-1-55860-734-7. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  32. ^ De Jong, Kenneth A; Poli, Riccardo; Rowe, Jonathan E, eds. (2003). Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Torremolinos, Spain, September 2-4, 2002. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 0122081552.
  33. ^ Wright, AH; Vose, MD; Jong, KA; Schmitt, LM, eds. (2005). Foundations of Genetic Algorithms: 8th International Workshop, FOGA 2005, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Japan, January 5-9, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3469. Vol. 3469. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/b138412. ISBN 978-3-540-27237-3. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  34. ^ "FOGA 2007 Foundations of Genetic Algorithms IX". FOGA 2007 - Foundations of Genetic Algorithms. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  35. ^ Stephens, CR; Toussaint, M; Whitley, D; Stadler, PF, eds. (2007). Foundations of Genetic Algorithms: 9th International Workshop, FOGA 2007, Mexico City, Mexico, January 8-11, 2007, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4436. Vol. 4436. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-73482-6. ISBN 978-3-540-73479-6. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  36. ^ "Foundations of Genetic Algorithms X FOGA 2009". FOGA 2009 - Foundations of Genetic Algorithms X. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  37. ^ Garibay, Ivan; Jansen, Thomas; Wiegand, R Paul; Wu, Annie S, eds. (2009). FOGA '09: Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGEVO workshop on Foundations of genetic algorithms. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/1527125. ISBN 978-1-60558-414-0. Retrieved 9 November 2025.
  38. ^ "Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XI FOGA 2011". FOGA 2011 - Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XI. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  39. ^ Beyer, Hans-Georg; Langdon, William B, eds. (2011). FOGA '11: Proceedings of the 11th workshop proceedings on Foundations of genetic algorithms. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/1967654. ISBN 978-1-4503-0633-1. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  40. ^ "FOGA 2013 Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XII". FOGA 2013 - Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XII. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  41. ^ Neumann, Frank; De Jong, Kenneth, eds. (2013). FOGA XII '13: Proceedings of the twelfth workshop on Foundations of genetic algorithms XII. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/2460239. ISBN 978-1-4503-1990-4. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  42. ^ He, Jun; Jansen, Thomas; Ochoa, Gabriela; Zarges, Christine, eds. (2015). FOGA '15: Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms XIII. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/2725494. ISBN 978-1-4503-3434-1.
  43. ^ Igel, Christian; Sudholt, Dirk; Witt, Carsten, eds. (2017). FOGA '17: Proceedings of the 14th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3040718. ISBN 978-1-4503-4651-1. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  44. ^ Friedrich, Tobias; Doerr, Carola; Arnold, Dirk, eds. (2019). FOGA '19: Proceedings of the 15th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3299904. ISBN 978-1-4503-6254-2. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  45. ^ Intended location. Virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic.
  46. ^ Finck, Steffan; Hellwig, Michael; Oliveto, Pietro S, eds. (2021). FOGA '21: Proceedings of the 16th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3450218. ISBN 978-1-4503-8352-3. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
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  48. ^ Friedrich, Tobias; Chicano, Fancisco; Rothlauf, Franz, eds. (2023). FOGA '23: Proceedings of the 17th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3594805. ISBN 979-8-4007-0202-0. Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  49. ^ a b "18th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms FOGA XVIII, Aug (26) 27 – 29, 2025, Leiden, The Netherlands". ACM FOGA 2025: FOGA 2025. Universiteit Leiden. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  50. ^ van Stein, Niki, ed. (2025). FOGA '25: Proceedings of the 18th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms, Leiden, the Netherlands. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3729878. ISBN 9798400718595. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
  51. ^ Finck, Steffan; Hellwig, Michael; Oliveto, Pietro S, eds. (2021). "Frontmatter: Welcome". FOGA'21 Proceedings of the 16th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. p. 3. doi:10.1145/3450218. ISBN 978-1-4503-8352-3. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  52. ^ "FOGA 2023 CONTENT". Content - FOGA 2023. Hasso Plassner Institute. Retrieved 11 November 2025.
  53. ^ "ACM SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award". SIGEVO Portal and Wiki: Outstanding Contribution Award. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  54. ^ "SIGEVO DIssertation Award". SIGEVO Portal and Wiki: SIGEVO Disseration Award. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  55. ^ "SIGEVO Chair Lecture". SIGEVO Portal and Wiki: SIGEVO Chair Lecture. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  56. ^ "Una-May O'Reilly". ALFA Lab - Una-May. Massachusetts Institute of Technoloy. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  57. ^ Hansen, N; Auger, A; Ros, R; Fink, S; Posik, P (2010). "Comparing results of 31 algorithms from the black-box optimization benchmarking BBOB-2009". In Branke, J (ed.). GECCO'10: Proceedings of the 12th annual conference companion on genetic and evolutionary computation. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 1689–1696. doi:10.1145/1830761.1830790. ISBN 9781450300735.
  58. ^ "SIGEVO Impact Award". SIGEVO Portal and Wiki: SIGEVO Impact Award. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  59. ^ "Best Paper Awards". GECCO 2025 Best Paper Awards. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  60. ^ "FOGA Best Paper Awards". SIGEVO Portal and Wiki: FOGA Best Paper Awards. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  61. ^ Morinnaga, D; Akimoto, Y (2019). "Generalized drift analysis in continuous domain: linear convergence of (1 + 1)-ES on strongly convex functions with Lipschitz continuous gradients". In Friedrich, Tobias; Doerr, Carola; Arnold, Dirk (eds.). FOGA '19: Proceedings of the 15th ACM/SIGEVO Conference on Foundations of Genetic Algorithms. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 13–24. doi:10.1145/3299904.3340303. ISBN 9781450362542.
  62. ^ "Annual "Humies" Awards For Human-Competitive Results". Human Competitive. Erik Goodman. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  63. ^ Tierney, K; Sellmann, M (2025). Branke, Jurgen; Lopez-Ibanez, Manuel (eds.). "Introduction to the Special Issue on Learning and Intelligent Optimization". ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization. 5 (3). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery: 1–2. doi:10.1145/3757070. ISSN 2688-3007. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  64. ^ a b "SIGEVO Journals". SIGEVO Portal and Wiki: Journals. ACM SIGEVO. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  65. ^ "Evolutionary Computation". Evolutionary Computation MIT Press. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
  66. ^ "Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines". Home: Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. Springer Nature. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
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