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LCS & GBML Central: Community resource is now Online

27 March 2009

LCSweb was designed to allow researchers and those seeking to use Learning Classifier Systems within applications access to material on LCS and discussion between members of the LCS community. The site served this community since its was started by Alwyn Barry in 1997. Enhanced and maintained later by Jan Drugowitsch, LCSweb became a valuable community resource. The site was completely community-driven and allowed members to contribute to the content of the site and keeping it up to date.  Later on in 2005, I started “LCS and other GBML” Blog to cover a gap providing information information regarding the International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS), the collection of LCS Books available, and GBML related news.Some of you may have realized that after Jan’s move to Rochester and Alwyn’s retirement from research activities, LCSweb has vanished. Will Browne took on himself to take LCSweb to Reading, but technical circumstances have made that move rocky despite his best efforts. Jan and Will however still have a local copy of LCSweb contents. After talking to Jan and Will, I proposed to merge LCSweb with the LCS and other GBML blog, and host the new site at NCSA where dedicated resources has been made available. Jan and Will agreed with the idea.  The current progress merging both sites can be summarized as  follows:Done:

In progress:

Besides, we have added two extra features to the site

  1. Automatic aggregation of feeds (some of you may know this as you may have seen in so call planet sites). I just did a quick list of feeds that I knew and added them to the aggregator. Unfortunately, few of the sites of our community provided feeds, so I would encourage everybody to think about it. Why may this be important? The updates of those feeds go straight into LCS & GBML Central. That would make possible to create one stop place for information in the LCS and GBML community, and still maintain each separate member’s identity (you will see that when you click on an aggregated entry, you will be directed to the originators site)
  2. Added forums to complement the LCS and GBML mailing list. Not to sure how useful will be, but at least it may help to jump in and ask questions (moderators volunteers more than welcome).

As mentioned above, the site is still on the building steps. LCSweb relevant content will be migrated slowly, but the main place holders are already there for your evaluation. Since this is a site for the community, we would love to hear about your feedback and ideas. As soon as new steps are conquered, we will keep you posted. Also, if you would like to help with the site, content transition, or know about  related feeds that should be aggregated please drop us an email, and  make this community your community.LCS & GBML Central can be reach at

Best,Jan, Will, and Xavier

Posted by Xavier Llorà Filed in LCSWeb, Workshop activities, Events, Proceedings, CFP, Software, IWLCS, Books
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Call For Papers: The Tenth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS 2007)

17 January 2007

Call for Papers for IWLCS 2007

The Tenth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS 2007) will be held in London, UK, July 7-8, 2007 during the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007), July 7-11, 2007.

Since Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) were introduced by John H. Holland as a way of applying evolutionary computation to machine learning problems, the LCS paradigm has broadened greatly into a framework encompassing many representations, rule discovery mechanisms, and credit assignment schemes. Current LCS applications range from data mining, to automated innovation, and to the on-line control of cognitive systems. LCS is a very active area of research that encompasses various system approaches. Wilson’s accuracy-based XCS system has received the highest attention and gained the highest reputation.

LCSs are benefiting from recent advances in machine learning, and reinforcement learning in particular, as well as in evolutionary computation. Novel insights in these two areas are continuously integrated into the LCS framework.

We invite submissions which discuss recent developments in all areas of research on, and applications of, Learning Classifier Systems. IWLCS is the event that brings together most of the core researchers in classifier systems. Moreover, a free introductory tutorial on LCSs is presented at GECCO 2007. The IWLCS workshop gives the opportunity also to researchers interested in LCS to get an impression of the current research directions in the field.

Submissions and Publication

There are two ways to submit papers (deadline March 16, 2007):

  1. short papers (up to 4 pages in ACM format) or
  2. full papers (up to 20 pages in Springer format)

All accepted papers may be presented orally at IWLCS. Accepted short papers will appear in the GECCO workshop volume. Proceedings of the workshop will be published on CD-ROM, and distributed at the conference. Authors of short papers will be invited after the workshop to submit revised (full) papers for publication in the post-workshop proceedings, in Springer LNCS/LNAI book series.

Accepted full papers will be published in the post-workshop proceedings. Authors of accepted full papers will be asked to provide a shorter 4-pages version for publication in the GECCO 2007 workshop proceedings.

The normal route is for authors to submit short papers and produce full papers after IWLCS for the post-workshop proceedings, incorporating feedback from reviewers and delegates. All submissions will be peer reviewed. Reviews of short papers will be mainly to provide feedback to enable the production of an improved full paper.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format and e-mailed to: esterb@salle.url.edu.

Important dates

Committees

Organizing Commitee

Advisory Committee

For more information please check here.

Posted by Xavier Llorà Filed in CFP, IWLCS
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Preliminary IWLCS 2007 CFP

10 January 2007

London, UK, July 7-9, 2007. To be held during the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2007), July 7-11, 2007.

Since Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) were introduced by Holland as a way of applying evolutionary computation to machine learning problems, the LCS paradigm has broadened greatly into a framework encompassing many representations, rule discovery mechanisms, and credit assignment schemes. Current LCS applications range from data mining to automated innovation to on-line control. Classifier systems are a very active area of research, with newer approaches, in particular Wilson’s accuracy-based XCS, receiving a great deal of attention. LCS are also benefiting from advances in the field of reinforcement learning, and there is a trend toward developing connections between the two areas. We invite submissions which discuss recent developments in all areas of research on, and applications of, Learning Classifier Systems. IWLCS is the only event to bring together most of the core researchers in classifier systems. A free introductory tutorial on LCS will be presented at GECCO 2007.

The final call for papers can be found here.

Posted by Xavier Llorà Filed in CFP, IWLCS
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Ninth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS 2006) - CFP

7 December 2005

Seattle, WA, USA, July 8-9, 2006. To be held during the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2006), July 8-12, 2006.

Since Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) were introduced by Holland as a way of applying evolutionary computation to machine learning problems, the LCS paradigm has broadened greatly into a framework encompassing many representations, rule discovery mechanisms, and credit assignment schemes. Current LCS applications range from data mining to automated innovation to on-line control. Classifier systems are a very active area of research, with newer approaches, in particular Wilson’s accuracy-based XCS, receiving a great deal of attention. LCS are also benefiting from advances in the field of reinforcement learning, and there is a trend toward developing connections between the two areas.

We invite submissions which discuss recent developments in all areas of research on, and applications of, Learning Classifier Systems.

IWLCS is the only event to bring together most of the core researchers in classifier systems. A free introductory tutorial on LCS will be presented at GECCO 2006.

Submissions

There are two possibilities for paper submissions. Both will be peer reviewed, but reviews of short papers will be mainly to provide feedback to authors - we expect most or all will be accepted.

1) Short papers of up to 4 pages may be submitted. Accepted short papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the GECCO workshop volume. The format of the GECCO workshop volume is to be confirmed but we expect it will be the ACM format used in 2005. After the workshop authors will be invited to submit full papers which are reviewed again for the post-workshop proceedings, which we plan to publish in Springer’s LNAI series as in past years.

2) Full papers of up to 20 pages (in Springer format) may be submitted for peer review before the workshop. Accepted full papers will be presented at the workshop and will be published in the post-workshop proceedings. Authors of full papers have a choice of how to contribute to the GECCO workshop volume: either i) prepare a short version for GECCO or ii) publish only your abstract in the GECCO book. If you prefer i) we would suggest an extended abstract of 1 or 2 pages, but anything up to 50% of the full paper is ok.

Papers should be submitted as PDF files e-mailed to iwlcs@cas.dis.titech.ac.jp.

Important dates

Please note: all dates are to be confirmed.

Camera Ready for GECCO 2006 Workshop Proceedings

The camera-ready papers should be formated following the instructions provided by GECCO. Failing to comply will result in exclusion from the proceedings. The proceedings will only be published on CD-ROM. Camera-ready papers must be submitted using the GECCO-2006 Submission & Review site at https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/gecco2006/.

Organization

Organizing Commitee

Advisory Committee

Program Committee

For further information please contact iwlcs@cas.dis.titech.ac.jp.

Posted by Xavier Llorà Filed in CFP, IWLCS
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Eighth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS 2005) - CFP

28 February 2005

Washington, D.C., USA, June 25, 2005. To be held during the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), June 25-29, 2005.

Since Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) were introduced by Holland as a way of applying evolutionary computation to machine learning problems, the LCS paradigm has broadened greatly into a framework encompassing many representations, rule discovery mechanisms, and credit assignment schemes. Current LCS applications range from data mining to automated innovation to on-line control. Classifier systems are currently enjoying a renaissance, with newer approaches, in particular Wilson’s accuracy-based XCS, receiving a great deal of attention. LCS are also benefiting from advances in the field of reinforcement learning, and there is a trend toward developing connections between the two areas.

We invite submissions which discuss recent developments in all areas of research on, and applications of, Learning Classifier Systems.

IWLCS is the only event to bring together most of the core researchers in classifier systems. Two free tutorials on LCS will be presented at GECCO 2005: an introductory tutorial on LCS in general and an advanced tutorial on XCS.

Special Session on Challenges for the Field

What are the key challenges, issues, limitations, technologies and directions for LCS research? We plan a special session consisting of 5 minute presentations on challenges for the field and how to solve them. If interested, please send your name and title of your presentation to the organisers by April 10, 2005.

Submissions

Accepted papers will appear in the GECCO 2005 workshop volume distributed at the conference, and, as in previous years, we intend to publish selected papers in a post-workshop proceedings in Springer’s LNAI series.

There are two possibilities for paper submissions. Short papers of up to 4 pages may be submitted. Short papers will be peer reviewed and those accepted will be presented at the workshop. After the workshop the authors will have to submit full papers which are reviewed again for the post-workshop proceedings.

Alternatively, full papers of up to 20 pages may be submitted for peer review before the workshop. All accepted full papers will be presented at the workshop and will be published in the post-workshop proceedings.

All papers should be in LNAI format. A PDF file containing the paper should be e-mailed to iwlcs@cas.dis.titech.ac.jp by the 10th of April 2005.

Camera ready for GECCO’2005 workshop proceedings

Accepted short papers will be published in the GECCO workshop book. Authors of long papers have a choice: either i) prepare a short version for GECCO or ii) send them only your abstract for the GECCO book. If you prefer i) I would suggest an extended abstract of 1 or 2 pages, but anything up to 75% of the full paper is ok.

All papers need to be format following the ACM camera-ready directives of all accepted workshop papers should be submitted by April 26 for their inclusion in the GECCO 2005 workshop proceedings. It is important to note that those papers needs to be format following ACM directives. Further instructions for the preparation of the workshop papers can be found at http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/gecco1.htm.

Remember to include the proper ACM conference information

\conferenceinfo{GECCO'05,} {June 25--29, 2005, Washington, DC, USA.}
\CopyrightYear{2005}
\crdata{1-59593-097-3/05/0006}

Important dates

Organization

Organizing Commitee

Advisory Committee

Program Committee

For further information please contact iwlcs@cas.dis.titech.ac.jp.

Posted by Xavier Llorà Filed in CFP, IWLCS
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