Contributors xix
Hormoz Shahrzad is principal scientist of Genetic Finance LLC, responsible
for the core technology of a massively distributed evolutionary system applied to
various domains, including stock trading. Hormoz has been active in the artificial
life and artificial intelligence field for more than 20 years
Moshe Sipper is a professor of computer science at Ben-Gurion University, Beer-
Sheva, Israel
Lee Spectoris a professor of computer science at Hampshire College and an
adjunct professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
He received a B.A. in philosophy from Oberlin College in 1984 and a PhD in
computer science from the University of Maryland in 1992. He is the editor-in-chief
of the journalGenetic Programming and Evolvable Machinesand a member of the
editorial board ofEvolutionary Computation. He is also a member of the SIGEVO
executive committee, and he was named a fellow of the International Society for
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Sean Stijven is at the University of Antwerp, Department of Mathematics –
Computer Sciences, Antwerpen, Belgium
Jerry Swan is at the York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis, Department of
Computer Science, University of York, York, UK
William A. Tozieris at Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Leonardo Trujillois Tree-Lab, Posgrado en Ciencias de la Ingeniería, Instituto
Tecnológico de Tijuana, Tijuana B.C., México
Philip Truscott is at Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, MO, USA
Pavel Vaksis at the Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University,
Beer-Sheva, Israel
Leonardo Vanneschi is at NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon,
Portugal
Ekaterina Vladislavleva is at Evolved Analytics, a data modeling consulting and
systems company
Lander Willem is at the University of Antwerp, Faculty of Medicine and Health
Sciences
Stephan M. Winkler is at the Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms Laboratory,
University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg, Austria
W.P. Worzel is one of the original organizers of the first GP Theory and Practice
workshop along with Rick Riolo. He is an entrepreneur and a consultant, whose
fundamental interest is in understanding the evolutionary mechanisms of GP (and
nature) in order to create better GP systems and apply them to new problems