Call for Papers

A Compilation of two exciting workshop years - IWLCS 2008 / 2009, to be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Current advances and future outlooks.

Since Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) were introduced by Holland (1977) as a way of applying evolutionary computation to machine learning problems, the LCS paradigm has broadened greatly into a framework encompassing many representations, rule discovery mechanisms, and credit assignment schemes. Current LCS applications range from data mining to automated innovation to on-line cognitive control. Classifier systems are a very active area of research, with newer approaches, in particular Wilson's linear approximation-based XCSF (Wilson, 2002), receiving a great deal of attention. LCS are also benefiting from advances in the field of reinforcement learning, adaptive filtering, and machine learning. Novel insights in these two areas are continuously integrated into the LCS framework.

For the post-workshop proceedings volume, we invite submissions of extended versions of the workshop contributions as well as additional contributions that survey state-of-the art advances, cutting edge research in the field, as well as future outlooks following on from workshop discussions. The volume will comprise recent developments in all areas of research on, and applications of, Learning Classifier Systems.

Submission Format

Submitted papers (deadline March 31, 2010) should have a maximum length of twenty (20) pages in 10pt, one-column format. Please use the LNCS Springer-Verlag style as specified at http://www.springeronline.com/comp/lncs/authors.html (LaTeX utilities can be found in the file llncs2e.zip). Papers will be reviewed for acceptance by the program committee and the organizers to ensure highest possible post-workshop proceedings quality.

All papers should be submitted, providing both source and a printable version in PDF format, using the online submission system at http://senldogo0039.springer-sbm.com:80/IWLCS/servlet/Conference.

Important dates

Paper submission deadline: Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Notification to authors: Friday, April 30, 2010
LNCS post-workshop proceedings camera-ready material: by Friday, May 28, 2010
Estimated publication of volume: fall 2010

Committees

Organizing Committee

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

Advisory Committee

Tim Kovacs, University of Bristol (UK)
Xavier Llorà, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Pier Luca Lanzi, Politecnico 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 Bernadó-Mansilla, Universitat Ramon Llull (Spain)