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LCS & GBML Central: Community resource is now Online
27 March 2009LCSweb 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:
- Resources for hosting are available at NCSA
- LCS and other GBML blog has been moved to NCSA (the old one will still be there for historic reasons and no updates will be made to it)
- A new name for the new merged site has been proposed (LCS & GBML Central)
In progress:
- Jan has taken upon himself to start slowly migrating the old content into the new site (be patient, he is doing that manually for which we should be very thank full)
Besides, we have added two extra features to the site
- 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)
- 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
Alwyn Barry changing jobs
19 September 2007This is an excerpt from Alwyn Barry’s web page (Thanks Pier Luca for pointing it out)
Most people who know me will be aware that I am changing job shortly. I will be leaving the University of Bath from 30th September 2007, and will no longer be an academic. I am moving to Street in Somerset to become the Pastor of Street Baptist Church. I am still happy to answer any questions relating to my previous research, so do feel free to contact me via my new email address, which is linked from this site.
Alwyn, it has been a pleasure to be able to interact with you. I would like to wish you the best in your new endeavor, knowing that you will give your 100% as usual.
International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS 2007)
17 January 2007The Tenth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS 2007)
will be held on July 7th or 8th, 2007 in association with the conference The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: GECCO 2007 held at the University College London, in London, England.
Post-workshop proceedings will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence series (LNCS/LNAI).
The call For Papers is available here.
Submission deadline is March, 16th.
GECCO 2007: Track on Genetics-Based Machine Learning and Learning Classifier Systems
15 December 2006Tim Kovacs is the chair of LCS and other GBML track for GECCO 2007. The deadline is approaching (January 17) 
You can find more information about the track here.
CEC 2007: Special Session on Genetics-Based Machine Learning
15 December 2006Helen Dam, Kamran Shafi, and Hussein A. Abbass are organizing a special session on GBML in CEC 2007. More information can be found here.
NCSA/IlliGAL Gathering on Evolutionary Learning (NIGEL’2006)
4 July 2006On May 16th and 17th, a group formed by more than twenty researchers got together in Urbana-Champaign (Illlinois) to participate in the gathering on evolutionary learning organized by the National Center for Supercomputer Applications and the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (NIGEL 2006). The goals were to discus current state-of-the-art research in learning classifier systems and other genetics-based machine learning, and to identify future research trends and applications where evolutionary learning might provide a competitive advantage. The first day attendees gave presentations about challenges and current research topics (see the materials below). The second day, a series of three topic-oriented brainstorming sessions were conducted covering: (1) future of LCS and other GBML, (2) areas of application, and (3) techniques.
The list of participants included Loretta Auvil, Jaume Bacardit, Alwyn Barry, Lashon Booker, Ester Bernado, Will Browne, Martin Butz, Jorge Casillas, Helen Dam, Dipankar Dasgupta, Deon Garrett, David Goldberg, Noriko Imafuji, Pier Luca Lanzi, Xavier Llora, Kumara Sastry, Kamran Shafi, Kenneth Turvey, Michael Welge, Ashley Williams, Stewart Wilson, and Paul Winward.
Presentations slides and videos of the presentations
Some pictures of the event can be found here or at the NIGEL web site.
| Xavier Llorà: “Welcome and presentation”[Slides][Video] |
| Stewart W. Wilson: “Can We Do Captchas?” [Slides][Video] |
| David E. Goldberg: “Searle, Intentionality, and the Future of Classifier Systems” [Slides][Video] |
| Dipankar Dasgupta: “Artificial Immune Systems in Anomaly Detection” [Slides][Video] |
| Lashon Booker: “A Retrospective Look at Classifier System Research” [Slides][Video] |
| Martin Butz: “XCS: Current Capabilities and Future Challenges” [Slides][Video] |
| Alwyn Barry: “Towards a Formal Framework for Accuracy-based LCS” [Slides][Video] |
| Xavier Llorà: “Linkage Learning for Pittsburgh Learning Classifier Systems: Making Problems Tractable” [Slides][Video] |
| Jorge Casillas: “Scalability in GBML, Accuracy-Based Michigan Fuzzy LCS, and New Trends” [Slides][Video] |
| Ester Bernadó: “Learning Classifier Systems for Unbalanced Datasets” [Slides][Video] |
| Pier-Luca Lanzi: “Computed Prediction: so far, so good. Now what?” [Slides][Video] |
| Jaume Bacardit: “Pittsburgh Learning Classifier Systems for Protein Structure Prediction: Scalability and Explanatory Power” [Slides][Video] |