NINTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
LEARNING CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS
to be held as part of the
2006 GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION CONFERENCE (GECCO-2006)
July 8-12, 2006 (Saturday-Wednesday)
Renaissance Seattle Hotel
Seattle, Washington, USA
Organized by ACM SIG-EVO
www.sigevo.org/GECCO-2006
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR WORKSHOP: March 17, 2006
Since Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs) were introduced by Holland
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 control. Classifier systems
are a very active area of research, with newer approaches, in
particular Wilson's accuracy-based XCS, receiving a great deal of
attention. LCS are also benefiting from advances in the field of
reinforcement learning, and there is a trend toward developing
connections between the two areas.
We invite submissions which discuss recent developments in all areas
of research on, and applications of, Learning Classifier Systems.
IWLCS is the only event to bring together most of the core
researchers in classifier systems. A free introductory tutorial on
LCS will be presented at GECCO 2006.
Submissions
There are two possibilities for paper submissions. Both will be peer
reviewed, but reviews of short papers will be mainly to provide
feedback to authors - we expect most or all will be accepted.
1) Short papers of up to 4 pages may be submitted. Accepted short
papers will be presented at the workshop and published in the GECCO
workshop volume. The format of the GECCO workshop volume is to be
confirmed but we expect it will be the ACM format used in 2005. After
the workshop authors will be invited to submit full papers which are
reviewed again for the post-workshop proceedings, which we plan to
publish in Springer's LNAI series as in past years.
2) Full papers of up to 20 pages (in Springer format) may be
submitted for peer review before the workshop. Accepted full papers
will be presented at the workshop and will be published in the post-
workshop proceedings. Authors of full papers have a choice of how to
contribute to the GECCO workshop volume: either i) prepare a short
version for GECCO or ii) publish only your abstract in the GECCO
book. If you prefer i) we would suggest an extended abstract of 1 or
2 pages, but anything up to 50% of the full paper is ok.
Important dates
* Paper submission deadline: March 17, 2006
* Decisions: April 3, 2006
* GECCO 2006 Workshop proceedings camerar-ready: April 19, 2006
* Workshop: July 8-9, 2006
Organizing Commitee<
* Tim Kovacs, University of Bristol (UK)
* Xavier Llora, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
* Keiki Takadama, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Further information and a complete CFP can be found at:
http://gal31.ge.uiuc.edu/lcs-n-gbml/
