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12th International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems
to be held as part of the
2009 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2009)
July 8-12, 2009 (Wednesday - Sunday)
Delta Centre-Ville hotel
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2009/
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Workshop Website:
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~jqb/IWLCS2009/
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The Twelfth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems
(IWLCS 2009) will be held in Montreal, Canada, Thursday, July 9, 2009
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. Since then, the LCS paradigm
has broadened greatly into a framework that encompasses many
representations, rule discovery mechanisms, and credit assignment
schemes.
Current LCS applications range from data mining, to automated
innovation and the on-line control of cognitive systems. LCS research
includes various actual system approaches: While Wilson's accuracy-
based XCS system (1995) has received the highest attention and gained
the highest reputation, studies and developments of other LCSs are
usually discussed and contrasted. Advances in machine learning, and
reinforcement learning in particular, as well as in evolutionary
computation have brought LCS systems the necessary competence and
guaranteed learning properties. Novel insights in machine learning and
evolutionary computation are being integrated into the LCS framework.
Thus, we invite submissions that 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 the day before the workshop at GECCO 2009. Tutorial and
IWLCS workshop thus also provide an opportunity for researchers
interested in LCSs to get an impression of the current research
directions in the field as well as a guideline for the application of
LCSs to their problem domain.
Submissions and Publication
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Submissions will be short-papers up to 8 pages in ACM format. Please
see the GECCO 2009 information for authors for further details.
All accepted papers will be presented at IWLCS 2009 and will appear in
the GECCO workshop volume. Proceedings of the workshop will be
published on CD-ROM, and distributed at the conference. Authors will
be invited after the workshop to submit revised (full) papers for
publication in the next post-workshop proceedings volume (scheduled
for 2010), in the Springer LNCS/LNAI book series.
All papers should be submitted in PDF format and e-mailed to:
[email protected].
Important dates
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* Paper submission deadline: Wednesday, March 25, 2009
* Notification to authors: Friday, April 3, 2009
* Submission of camera-ready material: by Wednesday, April 15, 2009
* Conference registration: by Monday, April 27, 2009
* Workshop date: Thursday, July 9, 2009
Committees
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- Organizing Commitee
* Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham (UK). E-mail:
[email protected]
* Will Browne, University of Reading (UK). E-mail:
[email protected]
* Jan Drugowitsch, University of Rochester (USA). E-mail:
[email protected]
- Advisory Committee
* Tim Kovacs, University of Bristol (UK)
* Xavier Llora University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
* Pier Luca Lanzi, Politechnico de Milano (Italy)
* Wolfgang Stolzmann, Daimler Chrysler AG (Germany)
* Keiki Takadama, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
* Stewart Wilson, Prediction Dynamics (USA)
* Martin V. Butz, Universitat Wurzburg (Germany)
* Ester Bernad-Mansilla, Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain).
Further information
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For more details, please visit the workshop website at:
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~jqb/IWLCS2009/
