The application process has ended and we are happy to announce that we have received applications from 15 students and 18 potential host institutions. Evaluation has now started. We advise students to have a look at the list of candidate
Special issue of the GPEM journal: Integrating numerical optimization methods with genetic programming
Editors: Anna Esparcia-Alcázar & Leonardo Trujillo https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10710-020-09381-6 The two papers contained in this special section give a complementary view on how GP can be hybridized with numerical optimization methods and problems. On the one hand, by enhancing GP with powerful
New Executive board 2019-20
A new Executive Board was elected in the AGM that took place in Leipzig on April 26th. Its members are: Wolfgang Banzhaf (treasurer) Stefano Cagnoni Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar (vice-president and secretary) Francesco Fontanella (new in 2019) J. Ignacio (Iñaki) Hidalgo
New Executive Board 2018-19
The members of the SPECIES Executive Board that were elected in the AGM that took place in Parma on April 6th are: – Wolfgang Banzhaf (treasurer) – Stefano Cagnoni (new in 2018) – Ernesto Costa – Anna I Esparcia-Alcázar (vice-president
SPECIES AGM 2017

Following the closing of Evo*, the first SPECIES Annual General Meeting was held in Amsterdam on April 21st 2017, with attendance by over 50 people. The main outcome of the meeting was the election of the new Executive Board members.