By Will Browne, Jan Drugowitsch and Jaume Bacardit
The 12th International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (LCS) successfully took place on July 9th, 2009 in Montreal, Canada as part of GECCO 09. Its ’success’ was measured in terms of number of attendees – multiple times the number of presenters, quality of papers, diversity of topics, originality [...]

Welcome to the Learning Classifier Systems workshop programme -Thursday, July 9, as part of GECCO 2009. Interesting and friendly discussions will occur throughout the workshop led by experts in the field. We also encourage, and anticipate, participation from researchers new to LCS to provide input on how best to develop the field.

Twelfth International Workshop on [...]

[ July 9, 2009; ] 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 a way of applying evolutionary computation to machine learning and adaptive behavior problems. [...]