Thisvolumerecordstheproceedingsofthe?fthEuropeanconferenceonGenetic Programming(EuroGP2002)whichtookplaceinKinsale, IrelandonApril3 5, 2002, continuing an established tradition of yearly meetings among the most prominent researchers on Genetic Programming in Europe and beyond; their proceedings have always been published in the LNCS series by Springer-Verlag. EuroGP began life in Paris in 1998 as an international workshop (April 14 15, LNCS 1391); a second workshop took place in G] oteborg in 1999 (May 26 27, LNCS 1598). Its ?rst appearance as a conference was in the year 2000 in Edinburgh...