This valuable reference discusses the hurdles faced in solving large-scale, cutting edge applications, describes promising techniques, including fitness approximation, Pareto optimization, cooperative teams, solution caching, and experiment control, and investigates evolutionary approaches such as financial modeling, bioinformatics, symbolic regression for system modeling, and evolutionary design of circuits and robot controllers.

Genetic Programming Theory and Practice IV represents a watershed moment in the GP field in that GP has begun to move from hand-crafted software used primarily in academic research, to an engineering methodology applied to commercial applications. It is a unique and indispensable tool for academics, researchers and industry professionals involved in GP, evolutionary computation, machine learning and artificial intelligence.