These contributions, written by the foremost international researchers and practitioners of Genetic Programming (GP), explore the synergy between theoretical and empirical results on real-world problems, producing a comprehensive view of the state of the art in GP. Chapters in this volume include: Similarity-based Analysis of Population Dynamics in GP Performing Symbolic RegressionHybrid Structural and Behavioral Diversity Methods in GPMulti-Population Competitive Coevolution for Anticipation of Tax EvasionEvolving Artificial General Intelligence for Video Game ControllersA Detailed Analysis of a PushGP RunLinear Genomes for Structured ProgramsNeutrality, Robustness, and Evolvability in GPLocal Search in GPPRETSL: Distributed Probabilistic Rule Evolution for Time-Series ClassificationRelational Structure in Program Synthesis Problems with Analogical ReasoningAn Evolutionary Algorithm for Big Data Multi-Class Classification ProblemsA Generic Framework for Building Dispersion Operators in the Semantic SpaceAssisting Asset Model Development with Evolutionary AugmentationBuilding Blocks of Machine Learning Pipelines for Initialization of a Data Science Automation Tool  Readers will discover large-scale, real-world applications of GP to a variety of problem domains via in-depth presentations of the latest and most significant results.