Connectionists: Submission deadline approaching for IWLCS 2010, 13th International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems

[Jan Drugowitsch]

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         13th International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems

                           to be held as part of the

        2010 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2010)
                          Sponsored by ACM SIGEVO

                     http://www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2010

                    July 7-11, 2010 (Wednesday-Sunday)
                Portland Marriott Downtown Waterfront Hotel
                       Portland, Oregon, USA

       PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: Wednesday, March 25, 2010

                              Workshop Website:
                  http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~jqb/IWLCS2010/

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The Thirteenth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems
(IWLCS 2010) will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA, Thursday, July 8, 2010
during the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2010),
July 7-11, 2010.

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 2010. 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.

Topics of interests include but are not limited to:

- Paradigms of LCS (Michigan, Pittsburgh, ...)
- Theoretical developments (behavior, scalability and learning bounds, ...)
- Representations (binary, real-valued, oblique, non-linear, fuzzy, ...)
- Types of target problems (single-step, multiple-step,
  regression/function approximation,...)
- System enhancements (competent operators, problem structure identification
  and linkage learning, ...)
- LCS for Cognitive Control (architectures, emergent behaviours, ...)
- Applications (data mining, medical domains, bioinformatics, ...)


Submissions and Publication
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Submissions will be short-papers up to 8 pages in ACM format. Please
see the GECCO 2010 information for authors for further details. However,
unlike GECCO, papers do not have to be submitted in anonymous format.

All accepted papers will be presented at IWLCS 2010 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 that, after
a thorough review process, are to be published in the next post-workshop
proceedings volume (scheduled for 2012), in the Springer LNCS/LNAI book
series.

All papers should be submitted in PDF format and e-mailed to:
jqb at cs.nott.ac.uk.


Important dates
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* Paper submission deadline: Thursday, March 25, 2010
* Notification to authors: Thursday, April 1, 2010
* Submission of camera-ready material: by Tuesday, April 13, 2010
* Conference registration: by Monday, April 19, 2010
* Workshop date: Thursday, July 8, 2009

Committees
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- Organizing Commitee

    * Jaume Bacardit, University of Nottingham (UK). E-mail:
jaume.bacardit at nottingham.ac.uk
    * Will Browne, Victoria University of Wellington (NZ). E-mail:
will.browne at ecs.vuw.ac.nz
    * Jan Drugowitsch, University of Rochester (USA). E-mail:
jdrugowitsch at bcs.rochester.edu

- Advisory Committee

    * Ester Bernad-Mansilla, Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain).
    * Martin V. Butz, Universitat Wurzburg (Germany)
    * Tim Kovacs, University of Bristol (UK)
    * Pier Luca Lanzi, Politechnico de Milano (Italy)
    * Xavier Llora University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
    * Wolfgang Stolzmann, Daimler Chrysler AG (Germany)
    * Keiki Takadama, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
    * Stewart Wilson, Prediction Dynamics (USA)


Further information
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For more details, please visit the workshop website at:
http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~jqb/IWLCS2010/

GECCO is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery Special
Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO). SIG
Services: 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 701, New York, NY, 10121, USA,
1-800-342-6626 (USA and Canada) or +212-626-0500 (Global).