**Meet the editor**

Sebastian Ventura was born in Cordoba (Spain) in 1966. He received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in sciences from the University of Cordoba in 1989 and 1996, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Numerical Analysis, University of Cordoba, where he is the Head of the Knowledge Discovery and Intelligent Systems Research

Laboratory. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 international publications. He has also edited several special issues in scientific journals and two scientific books in his areas of expertise. He has also worked on eleven research projects (being the Coordinator of three of them) that were supported by the Spanish and Andalusian governments and the European Union. His research interests include soft computing (mostly evolutionary computing and genetic programming), machine learning, data mining, and their applications.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Using Quantitative Genetics and Phenotypic Traits** 

Chapter 2 **Continuous Schemes for Program Evolution 27** 

Uday Kamath, Jeffrey K. Bassett and Kenneth A. De Jong

Cyril Fonlupt, Denis Robilliard and Virginie Marion-Poty

Douglas A. Augusto, Heder S. Bernardino and Helio J.C. Barbosa

Chapter 3 **Programming with Annotated Grammar Estimation 49** 

Chapter 4 **Genetically Programmed Regression Linear Models for Non-Deterministic Estimates 75**  Guilherme Esmeraldo, Robson Feitosa, Dilza Esmeraldo and Edna Barros

**on Graphics Processing Units 95** 

Chapter 6 **Structure-Based Evolutionary Design Applied** 

**for Prediction of Fabric Porosity 173**  Polona Dobnik Dubrovski and Miran Brezočnik

Giovanni Andrea Casula and Giuseppe Mazzarella

**Genetic Programming Implied Volatility Models 141**  Fathi Abid, Wafa Abdelmalek and Sana Ben Hamida

**in Genetic Programming 3** 

Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Chapter 5 **Parallel Genetic Programming** 

**Section 2 Successful Applications 115** 

**to Wire Antennas 117** 

Chapter 7 **Dynamic Hedging Using Generated** 

Chapter 8 **The Usage of Genetic Methods** 

**Section 1 New Approaches 1** 
