GP+EM 20th anniversary editorial

摘要

We hope that you find this special issue both reflective and inspiring, helping us better understand how far we've come, and challenging us to push even farther. GP has come a long way from the "toy" problems of its early days to making valuable contributions in a wide array of fields, and exploring a variety of representations and approaches. That said, however, we are still well short of a general purpose automatic programming engine, and there's clearly much more still to be done. We are very grateful to all the authors that contributed their work and ideas to this special issue, and the many reviewers who did so much to establish and improve its overall quality. We also greatly appreciate all of you who take the time to explore this issue's contents. Hopefully this will help motivate you to go do the amazing work that will define the next twenty years of GPEM and genetic programming!