These contributions, written by the foremost international researchers and practitioners of Genetic Programming (GP), explore the synergy between theoretical and empirical results on real-world problems, producing a comprehensive view of the state of the art in GP.

1. Characterizing the Effects of Random Subsampling on Lexicase Selection.- 2. It is Time for New Perspectives on How to Fight Bloatin GP.- 3. Explorations of the Semantic Learning Machine Neuroevolution Algorithm.- 4. Can Genetic Programming Perform Explainable Machine Learning for Bioinformatics?.- 5. Symbolic Regression by Exhaustive Search – Reducing the Search Space using Syntactical Constraints and Efficient Semantic Structure Deduplication.- 6. Temporal Memory Sharing in Visual Reinforcement Learning.- 7. The Evolution of Representations in Genetic Programming Trees.- 8. How Competitive is Genetic Programming in Business Data Science Applications?.- 9. Using Modularity Metrics as Design Features to Guide Evolution in Genetic Programming.- 10. Evolutionary Computation and AI Safety.- 11. Genetic Programming Symbolic Regression.- 12. Hands-on Artificial Evolution through Brain Programming.- 13. Comparison of Linear Genome Representations For Software Synthesis.- 14. Enhanced Optimization with Composite Objectives and Novelty Pulsation.- 15. New Pathways in Coevolutionary Computation.- 16. 2019 Evolutionary Algorithms Review.- 17. Evolving a Dota 2 Hero Bot with a Probabilistic Shared Memory Model.- 18. Modelling Genetic Programming as a Simple Sampling Algorithm.- 19.  An Evolutionary System for Better Automatic Software Repair.- Index.

Provides contributions describing cutting-edge work on the theory and applications of genetic programming (GP) Offers large-scale, real-world applications (big data) of GP to a variety of problem domains, including commercial and scientific applications as well as financial and insurance problems Explores controlled semantics, lexicase and other selection methods, crossover techniques, diversity analysis and understanding of convergence tendencies