Statement of research interests

Wolfgang Banzhaf

• Genetic Programming, mostly using Linear Genomes
• Genotype-Phenotype mapping methods
• Developmental approaches to GP
• Theoretical issues: Introns, complexity
• Applications of Genetic Programming
• Function regression, model building
• Data classification, Pattern recognition
• Data compression (sound, still and moving images)
• Control (robotics, processes)
• Biological Applications
• Time Series (financial and otherwise)
• Evolvable Machines
• Evolution of Locomotion Strategies for Robots
• Evolution of Morphologies for Robots
• Evolvable Hardware
• Foundations and applications of evolutionary algorithms
• Interactive evolution (user-in-the-loop approaches)
• Co-evolution
• Combinatorial optimization problems
• GPU Implementation of Evolutionary Algorithms
• Artificial Life, Complex Systems, Self-organization
• Artificial Chemistries
• Origin-of-Life models
• Self-organisation in mathematical (binary, real-valued) systems
• Self-organisation in computational systems
• Self-organisation in physical, chemical and biological systems
• Models of Economic and Social Systems
• Bioinformatics
• Genetic Regulation
• Network Analysis
• Gene array data classification
• Computation
• Bio-inspired Computing
• Molecular computation
• Competitive systems of computation
• Neuro-computation
• Computational Evolution