Archive for 'Software' Category
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
E2K blog has moved
2 August 2007The E2K blog has moved. You can reach it at
http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/e2k/
XCSFJava 1.1
1 August 2007XCSFJava 1.1 code authored by Martin V. Butz was posted online and its documentation was posted as Missouri Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Laboratory Technical Report No. 2007008. Click here to access MEDAL software, or here to access MEDAL reports.
E2K: Evolution to knowledge
21 October 2006Evolution to Knowledge (E2K) is a set of Data to Knowledge (D2K) modules and itineraries that perform genetic algorithms (GA) and genetics-based machine learning (GBML) related tasks. The goal of E2K is to fold: simplify the process of building GA/GBML related tasks, and provide a simple exploratory workbench for the evolutionary computation community to help users to interact with evolutionary processes. It can help to create complex tasks or help the newcomer to get familiarized and trained with the evolutionary methods and techniques provided. Moreover, due to its integration into D2K, the creation of combined data mining and evolutionary task can be effortlessly done via the visual programming paradigm provided by the workflow environment and also wrap other evolutionary computation software.
E2K targets the creation of a common shared framework for the evolutionary computation community. E2K allows users to reuse evolutionary components and, using a visual programming paradigm, connect them to create applications that fulfill the targeted needs. E2K is a project built around the D2K framework developed by the Automated Learning Group at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. D2K’s dataflow architecture provides users with a simple workbench where they can rapidly create applications visually by just dragging and connecting components (modules) together. E2K modules provide simple computation activities—such as evaluation, selection, and recombination mechanism—that when combined together create complex evolutionary computation algorithms. Due to the module standardization in D2K, it can act as integrator of evolutionary techniques and library—for instance wrapping ECJ or Open BEAGLE components—and also take advantage of the data mining techniques provided with the D2K.
GALE is back
21 May 2006Xavier Llorà has just update the webpage about GALE. GALE can be reached and downloaded here.
LCS software
20 February 2006If you are looking for some freely available LCS software, you can find a list maintained by Jan Drugowitsch here.