abstract = "This chapter encompasses the journey over the past
several years of the group efforts to design
meta-materials for advanced electromagnetic
applications using genetic programming (GP). Starting
with the initial work in designing, validating, and
characterizing metamaterials for use in ultra-wideband
ground plane applications based on human expertise, the
need for an optimized design methodology is identified.
Next, the rationale to investigate the use of GP for
metamaterial design because of its potential to lead to
novel and ill-logical structures is explained. Then,
the development of the GP software and its resulting
metamaterial designs are presented detailing the
evolution of the developed GP software over time as
different applications were explored. Finally, the
results of the experimental validation of the
GP-generated designs along with a procedure to
characterise their novel, non-intuitive design
structures through the use of Prony method and
equivalent circuit models are presented.",
notes = "In Honor and Appreciation of Magdy Fahmy
Iskander.