GECCO 2012 Genetics-based Machine Learning track deadline extended to 27 Jan. 2012

The submission deadline for all tracks at GECCO 2012 has been extended to January 27, 2012

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GECCO 2012: Call for Papers on GENETICS-BASED MACHINE LEARNING (GBML)

2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012)
The largest conference in the field of evolutionary computation
July 7-11, Philadelphia, USA
http://www.sigevo.org/gecco-2012/

**Extended submission deadline: January 27, 2012**

Co-located with the International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS)
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The Genetics-Based Machine Learning (GBML) track at GECCO covers all advances in theory and application of evolutionary computation methods to Machine Learning (ML) problems.

ML presents an array of paradigms — unsupervised, semi-supervised, supervised, and reinforcement learning — which frame a wide range of clustering, classification, regression, prediction and control tasks.

Evolutionary methods have a range of uses in ML:
– addressing subproblems of ML e.g.
– feature selection and construction
– optimising parameters of other ML methods
– as learning methods e.g.
– generating classification hypotheses with Genetic Programming
– learning control systems or cognitive modelling with Learning Classifier Systems
– as meta-learners which adapt base learners e.g.
– evolving the structure and weights of neural networks
– evolving the data base and rule base in genetic fuzzy systems
– evolving ensembles of base learners
– evolving representations, update rules or algorithms for base learners

The global search performed by evolutionary methods can complement the local search of non-evolutionary methods and combinations of the two are particularly welcome.

Free tutorials include:
– Learning Classifier Systems
– Large Scale Data Mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning

Track Chairs

Dr. Will Browne, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ (will.browne -at-
ecs -dot- vuw -dot- ac -dot- nz)

Dr. Tim Kovacs, University of Bristol, U.K. (kovacs -at- cs -dot- bris
-dot- ac -dot- uk)

IWLCS 2010 – Discussion session on LCS / XCS(F)

I just got an email from Martin Butz about a discussion session being planned for IWLCS 2010 and his request to pass it along. Hope all is well and you are going to attend GECCO this year. Regardless if you

I just got an email from Martin Butz about a discussion session being planned for IWLCS 2010 and his request to pass it along.

Hope all is well and you are going to attend GECCO this year.

Regardless if you attend or not:

Jaume asked me to lead a discussion session on

“LCS representations, operators, and scalability – what is next?”

… or similar during IWLCS… Basically everything besides datamining, because there will be another session on that topic.

So, I am sure you all have some issues in mind that you think should be tackled / addressed / discussed at the workshop and in the near future.

Thus, I would be very happy to receive a few suggestions from your side – anything is welcome – I will then compile the points raised in a few slides to try and get the discussion going at the workshop.

Thank you for any feedback you can provide.

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Martin

P.S.: Please feel free to also forward this message or tell me, if you think this Email should be still sent to other people…
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PD Dr. Martin V. Butz <butz@psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de>

Department of Psychology III (Cognitive Psychology)
Roentgenring 11
97070 Wuerzburg, Germany
http://www.coboslab.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/people/martin_v_butz/
http://www.coboslab.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de
Phone: +49 (0)931 31 82808
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LCS and Software Development

“On the Road to Competence” is a slide deck by Jurgen Appelo with interesting analogies between learning classifier systems and software development. Definitely worth taking a look at it. Related posts:NIGEL 2006 Part II: Dasgupta vs. Booker Large Scale Data Mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning Software for fast rule matching using vector instructions

Related posts:

  1. NIGEL 2006 Part II: Dasgupta vs. Booker
  2. Large Scale Data Mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning
  3. Software for fast rule matching using vector instructions

“On the Road to Competence” is a slide deck by Jurgen Appelo with interesting analogies between learning classifier systems and software development. Definitely worth taking a look at it.

Related posts:

  1. NIGEL 2006 Part II: Dasgupta vs. Booker
  2. Large Scale Data Mining using Genetics-Based Machine Learning
  3. Software for fast rule matching using vector instructions

GAssist and GALE Now Available in Python

Ryan Urbanowicz has released Python versions of GAssits and GALE!!! Yup, so excited to see a new incarnation of GALE doing the rounds. I cannot wait to get my hands on it. Ryan has also done an excellent job porting UCS, XCS, and MCS to Python and making those implementations available via “LCS & GBML central” for […]

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Ryan Urbanowicz has released Python versions of GAssits and GALE!!! Yup, so excited to see a new incarnation of GALE doing the rounds. I cannot wait to get my hands on it. Ryan has also done an excellent job porting UCS, XCS, and MCS to Python and making those implementations available via “LCS & GBML central” for people to use. I think Ryan’s efforts deserve recognition. His code is helping others to have an easier entry to the LCS and GBML.

More information about Ryan’s implementations can found below

Side note: my original GALE implementation can also be downloaded here.

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  2. Fast mutation implementation for genetic algorithms in Python
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LCS & GBML Central Gets a New Home

Today I finished migrating the LCS & GBML Central site from its original URL (http://lcs-gbml.ncsa.uiuc.edu) to a more permanent and stable home located at http://gbml.org. The original site is already currently redirecting the trafic to the new site, and it will be doing so for a while to help people transition and update bookmarks and […]

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Today I finished migrating the LCS & GBML Central site from its original URL (http://lcs-gbml.ncsa.uiuc.edu) to a more permanent and stable home located at http://gbml.org. The original site is already currently redirecting the trafic to the new site, and it will be doing so for a while to help people transition and update bookmarks and feed readers.

I have introduced a few changes to the functionality of the original site. Functional changes can be mostly summarized by (1) dropping the forums section and (2) closing comments on posts and pages. Both functionalities, rarely used  in their current form, have been replaced by a simpler public embedded Wave reachable at http://gbml.org/wave. The goal, provide people in the LCS & GBML community a simpler way to discuss, share, and hang out.

About the feeds being aggregated, I have revised the list and added the feeds now available of the table of contents from

I have also added a few other links to relevant research groups doing work on related areas. Please, leave a comment on this post if you know/have a related site that could be aggregated, or if there are missing links to research groups or useful resources.

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NIGEL 2006 Part VI: Bacardit

After coming back from GECCO I just uploaded the last of the NIGEL 2006 talks at LCS & GBML Central. This last talk was by Jaume Bacardit and GBML for protein structure prediction.

Related posts:NIGEL 2006 Part V: Bernardó vs. LanziNIGEL 2006 Part IV: Llorà vs. CasillasNIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz vs. Barry

Related posts:

  1. NIGEL 2006 Part V: Bernardó vs. Lanzi
  2. NIGEL 2006 Part IV: Llorà vs. Casillas
  3. NIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz vs. Barry

After coming back from GECCO I just uploaded the last of the NIGEL 2006 talks at LCS & GBML Central. This last talk was by Jaume Bacardit and GBML for protein structure prediction.

Related posts:

  1. NIGEL 2006 Part V: Bernardó vs. Lanzi
  2. NIGEL 2006 Part IV: Llorà vs. Casillas
  3. NIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz vs. Barry

NIGEL 2006 revisited (Part VI): Bacardit

This is the last of the NIGEL talks NIGEL 2006 talks. Enjoy this last one

Jaume Bacardit

Video
[vimeo clip_id=5065758 width=”432″ height=”320″]

Slides
[slideshare id=1384657&doc=nigel-2006-bacardit-090504154202-phpapp02]

NIGEL 2006 Part V: Bernardó vs. Lanzi

After the vacation break, two more NIGEL 2006 talks are available at LCS & GBML Central. This week Ester Bernardó presents how LCS can perform in the presence of class imbalance, whereas Lanzi continues his quest on computed predictions.

Related posts:NIGEL 2006 Part IV: Llorà vs. CasillasTranscoding NIGEL 2006 videosNIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz […]

Related posts:

  1. NIGEL 2006 Part IV: Llorà vs. Casillas
  2. Transcoding NIGEL 2006 videos
  3. NIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz vs. Barry

After the vacation break, two more NIGEL 2006 talks are available at LCS & GBML Central. This week Ester Bernardó presents how LCS can perform in the presence of class imbalance, whereas Lanzi continues his quest on computed predictions.

Related posts:

  1. NIGEL 2006 Part IV: Llorà vs. Casillas
  2. Transcoding NIGEL 2006 videos
  3. NIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz vs. Barry

NIGEL 2006 revisited (Part V): Bernadó and Lanzi

After a brief break, the two last rounds of talks are coming. This week two more NIGEL 2006 talks. Enjoy this fifth release, Bernadó vs. Lanzi.

Ester Bernardó-Mansilla

Video
[vimeo clip_id=5065762 width=”432″ height=”320″]

Slides
[slideshare id=1384643&doc=nigel-2006-bernado-090504153926-phpapp02]

Pier Luca Lanzi

Video
[vimeo clip_id=5065667 width=”432″ height=”320″]

Slides
[slideshare id=1384584&doc=nigel-2006-lanzi-090504152951-phpapp02]

NIGEL 2006 Part IV: Llorà vs. Casillas

Two more NIGEL 2006 talks are available at LCS & GBML Central. This week Xavier Llorà presents how linkage learning can be achieve in Pittsburgh LCS, whereas Jorge Casillas reviews his work using XCS and Fuzzy LCS.

Related posts:NIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz vs. BarryNIGEL 2006 Part II: Dasgupta vs. BookerNIGEL 2006 Part V: […]

Related posts:

  1. NIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz vs. Barry
  2. NIGEL 2006 Part II: Dasgupta vs. Booker
  3. NIGEL 2006 Part V: Bernardó vs. Lanzi

Two more NIGEL 2006 talks are available at LCS & GBML Central. This week Xavier Llorà presents how linkage learning can be achieve in Pittsburgh LCS, whereas Jorge Casillas reviews his work using XCS and Fuzzy LCS.

Related posts:

  1. NIGEL 2006 Part III: Butz vs. Barry
  2. NIGEL 2006 Part II: Dasgupta vs. Booker
  3. NIGEL 2006 Part V: Bernardó vs. Lanzi