EUROGP 2026: Call for Papers

The 29th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EUROGP) will take place as part of EvoStar in Toulouse, France, from 8 - 10 April 2026.

EUROGP is the premier annual conference on Genetic Programming (GP), the oldest and the only meeting worldwide devoted specifically to this branch of evolutionary computation. It attracts participants from all continents, offering excellent opportunities for networking and the exchange of ideas.

Conference Chairs

• Luca Manzoni (Università degli studi di Trieste, Italy; lmanzoni(at)units.it)
• Sylvain Cussat-Blanc (Univeristy of Toulouse, France; sylvain.cussat-blanc(at)irit.fr)

Publication Chair

TBD

Topics of Interest

Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:

• Algorithms, representations, and operators for GP
• Innovative applications of GP
• Tree-based, linear, graph-based, and grammar-based GP
• Theoretical developments
• GP performance, behavior, and benchmarking
• Multiple populations, coevolution, and modularity in GP
• Multi-objective GP
• Explainability and interpretability in GP
• Genetic improvement programming
• GP for software engineering
• GP for continuous control and evolutionary robotics
• Evolutionary design
• Evolvable hardware
• Parallel GP
• Unconventional GP
• Hybridization of GP with other methods

Submission Details

Accepted papers will be published by Springer Nature in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions must be original and not published elsewhere. They will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The reviewing process will be double-blind, so please omit information about the authors in the submitted paper. Submit your manuscript in Springer LNCS format.

• Page limit: 14 + unlimited references pages
• Submission Deadline: 1 November 2025 AoE
• For further information please visit www.evostar.org/2026/eurogp

Important Dates

Event	Date
EvoApps Special Session Proposals	8 September 2025
Submission deadline	1 November 2025
Notification to authors	10 January 2026
Camera-ready submission	24 January 2026
Author's mandatory registration	11 February 2026
Early registration deadline	4 March 2026
Late-Breaking Abstracts submission	29 March 2026
EvoStar Conference	8-10 April 2026