Publisher's Synopsis
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2001, held at Lake Como, Italy in April 2001.;The 17 revised full papers and 13 research posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected during a rigorous double-blind refereeing process out of 42 submissions.;All current aspects of genetic programming are addressed, ranging from theoretical and foundational issues to applications in a variety of fields such as robotics, artificial retina, character recognition, financial prediction, digital filter and electronic circuit design, image processing, data fusion, and bio-sequencing.