Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory

Prof. Goldberg is moderating/facilitating a brainstorming session on LCS/GBML.
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is talking at NIGEL about using Pitt style LCSs for protein structure prediction. See here for pdf of presentation close to one he is presenting today.
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Pelikan and Goldberg’s patent, “A Method for Optimizing a Solution Set” issued today as US Patent No. 7,047,169. See here.
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PLL is talking about computed prediction.
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Ester is talking about using XCS in unbalanced datasets.
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Jorge Casillas is talking about the group from Granada SCI2S and his working on scalable fuzzy XCS. He mentions the KEEL group in Spain, Knowledge Extraction Using Evolutionary Learning (see site here).
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Alwyn Barry described some pretty work in placing a formal framework around all of classifier systems in the (a) dynamic programming formalism, (b) value function approximation, and (c) rule replacement.
Xavier Llora is talking about using chi-ary ECGA to learn rules.
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Lashon is talking about the early days in the 70s and 80s of irrational exuberance about artificial intelligence and how Holland couldn’t understand how symbolic AIers were going to avoid brittleness.
Needs then:

exploit regularities in the environments
generalizations selective, pragmatic, and subject to exceptions
learning must be incremental and coupled to performance
rules as tentative hypotheses, not consistent assertions

Classifiers […]

I’m sitting listening to Dispankar Dasgupta talk about artificial immune systems at Xavier Llora’s NIGEL workshop. This morning the talks are

Stewart W. Wilson: “Can We Do Captchas?”
David E. Goldberg: “Searle, Intentionality, and the Future of Classifier Systems”
Dipankar Dasgupta: “Artificial Immune Systems in Anomaly Detection”
Lashon Booker: “A Retrospective Look at Classifier System […]

The first issue of SIGEVOlution, the newsletter of SIGEVO, the ACM Special Interest Group for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, is now available for you to download.
This issue (April 2006) features:

EC@American Air Liquide, by Charles Neely Harper
New Challenges for EC Music and Art, by Jon McCormack
Open BEAGLE, by Christian Gagne’ & Marc Parizeau
Letters
Dissertation Corner
Forthcoming Papers
New Books
Calls […]