The LCS and GBML community stop
The final editing of the volume Advances at the frontier of LCS to be published by Springer is advancing at steady pace. The volume is going to be an overview of the research LCS and other GBML presented at IWLCS. The volume will cover 2003, 2004, and 2005 contributions.
So far, these are the raw numbers for 2003 and 2004 contributions:
The decisions about 2005 will be out soon. We will keep you posted
Springer has agreed to publish the compilation volume Advances in Learning Classifier Systems (the title may be slightly changed) including contributions from the International Workshop of Learning Classifier Systems in its editions of 2003, 2004, and 2005. This volume will present an overview of the work presented in the last three years of the workshop and will include up to 30 contributions.
The deadline for the camera-ready of your contribution to IWLCS was initially set to November 15. Due to the previous delay, we would extend this deadline until November 25 for your convenience. Please do not to hesitate to get in touch if you may not be able to reach this deadline. Due to the size of this volume, we would like to stick to this deadline to be able to have the volume ready for the next workshop edition in Seattle.
For further instructions about how to prepare your camera ready please check the Springer format instructions for authors at
Contributions should not exceed 20 pages. Authors providing camera- readies that do not complain with the LNCS format or exceed the maximum number of pages will be ask to resubmit them, and may not be included if time constraints do not allow us to do so.
Washington, D.C., USA, June 25, 2005. To be held during the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), June 25-29, 2005.
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 currently enjoying a renaissance, 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. Two free tutorials on LCS will be presented at GECCO 2005: an introductory tutorial on LCS in general and an advanced tutorial on XCS.
Special Session on Challenges for the Field
What are the key challenges, issues, limitations, technologies and directions for LCS research? We plan a special session consisting of 5 minute presentations on challenges for the field and how to solve them. If interested, please send your name and title of your presentation to the organisers by April 10, 2005.
Submissions
Accepted papers will appear in the GECCO 2005 workshop volume distributed at the conference, and, as in previous years, we intend to publish selected papers in a post-workshop proceedings in Springer’s LNAI series.
There are two possibilities for paper submissions. Short papers of up to 4 pages may be submitted. Short papers will be peer reviewed and those accepted will be presented at the workshop. After the workshop the authors will have to submit full papers which are reviewed again for the post-workshop proceedings.
Alternatively, full papers of up to 20 pages may be submitted for peer review before the workshop. All accepted full papers will be presented at the workshop and will be published in the post-workshop proceedings.
All papers should be in LNAI format. A PDF file containing the paper should be e-mailed to iwlcs@cas.dis.titech.ac.jp by the 10th of April 2005.
Camera ready for GECCO’2005 workshop proceedings
Accepted short papers will be published in the GECCO workshop book. Authors of long papers have a choice: either i) prepare a short version for GECCO or ii) send them only your abstract for the GECCO book. If you prefer i) I would suggest an extended abstract of 1 or 2 pages, but anything up to 75% of the full paper is ok.
All papers need to be format following the ACM camera-ready directives of all accepted workshop papers should be submitted by April 26 for their inclusion in the GECCO 2005 workshop proceedings. It is important to note that those papers needs to be format following ACM directives. Further instructions for the preparation of the workshop papers can be found at http://www.sheridanprinting.com/typedept/gecco1.htm.
Remember to include the proper ACM conference information
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\CopyrightYear{2005}
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Important dates
Organization
Organizing Commitee
Advisory Committee
Program Committee
For further information please contact iwlcs@cas.dis.titech.ac.jp.