At the beginning of the 1990s research started in how to combine soft comput- ing with reconfigurable hardware in a quite unique way. One of the methods that was developed has been called evolvable hardware. Thanks to evolution- ary algorithms researchers have started to evolve electronic circuits routinely. A number of interesting circuits - with features unreachable by means of con- ventional techniques - have been developed. Evolvable hardware is quite pop- ular right now; more than fifty research groups are spread out over the world. Evolvable hardware has become a part of the curriculum...

At the beginning of the 1990s research started in how to combine soft comput- ing with reconfigurable hardware in a quite unique way. One of the methods that was developed has been called evolvable hardware. Thanks to evolution- ary algorithms researchers have started to evolve electronic circuits routinely. A number of interesting circuits - with features unreachable by means of con- ventional techniques - have been developed. Evolvable hardware is quite pop- ular right now; more than fifty research groups are spread out over the world. Evolvable hardware has become a part of the curriculum...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2017, co-located with the Evo* 2017 events, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, and EvoApplications.
The 14 revised full papers presented together with 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The wide range of topics in this volume reflects the current state of research in the field. Thus, we see topics and applications including program synthesis, genetic improvement, grammatical representations, self-adaptation,...