Drew Mellor is pleased to announce the publication of his new LCS book. Reinforcement Learning, Logic and Evolutionary Computation: A Learning Classifier System Approach to Relational Reinforcement Learning, published by Lambert Academic Publishing (ISBN 978-3-8383-0196-9).
Abstract Reinforcement learning (RL) consists of methods that automatically adjust behaviour based on numerical rewards and penalties. While use of [...]

This is the last of the NIGEL talks NIGEL 2006 talks. Enjoy this last one
Jaume Bacardit
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After a brief break, the two last rounds of talks are coming. This week two more NIGEL 2006 talks. Enjoy this fifth release, Bernadó vs. Lanzi.
Ester Bernardó-Mansilla
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Pier Luca Lanzi
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This week two more NIGEL 2006 talks. Enjoy this third release, Llorà vs. Casillas.
Xavier Llorà
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Jorge Casillas
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This week two more NIGEL 2006 talks. Enjoy this third release, Butz vs. Barry.
Martin Butz
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Alwyn Barry
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This week two more NIGEL 2006 talks. Enjoy this second release, Dasgupta vs. Booker.
Dipankar Dasgupta
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Lashon Booker
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I finally finished transcoding the videos from NIGEL 2006 and started uploading them to Vimeo. Every week I will upload two of them following NIGEL 2006 agenda. I will also embed the slides that are already available on SlideShare, if available for the talk. Enjoy this first release, Wilson vs. Goldberg. I have also included [...]

[ May 31, 2009; ] Aim and Scope

Data mining and knowledge discovery are crucial techniques across many scientific disciplines. Recent developments such as the Genome Project (and its successors) or the construction of the Large Hadron Collider have provided the scientific community with vast amounts of data. Metaheuristics and other evolutionary algorithms have been successfully applied to a large variety of data mining tasks. Competitive metaheuristic [...]

[ April 1, 2009; ] Please note a few extra days for submission as requested – see important dates.

The Twelfth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS 2009) will be held in Montreal, Canada, Thursday, July 9, 2008 during the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2009), July 8-12, 2009.

Originally, Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) were introduced by John H. Holland as [...]

Learning Classifier Systems:
10th International Workshop, IWLCS 2006, Seattle, MA, USA, July 8, 2006, and 11th International Workshop, IWLCS 2007, London, UK, July 8, 2007, Revised Selected Papers
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Subseries: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence , Vol. 4998
Bacardit, J.; Bernadó-Mansilla, E.; Butz, M.V.; Kovacs, T.; Llorà, X.; Takadama, K. (Eds.)
2008, X, 307 p., Softcover
ISBN: 978-3-540-88137-7

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This book [...]

[ July 13, 2008; ] The Eleventh International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS 2008) will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Sunday, July 13, 2008 during the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2008), July 12-16, 2008.

Originally, Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) were introduced by John H. Holland as a way of applying evolutionary computation to machine learning and adaptive behavior problems. [...]

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 [...]