CFP: Springer EI - Special Issue on Advances in Learning Classifier Systems

[Daniele Loiacono]

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Special Issue on Advances in Learning Classifier Systems

Evolutionary Intelligence, Springer (http://www.springer.com/12065)

Guest Editors: Daniele Loiacono, Albert Orriols-Puig, Ryan Urbanowicz

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Learning Classifier Systems are a genetic-based machine learning 

paradigm introduced by Holland in 1976. They are rule-based systems 

which allow different representations, rule discovery mechanisms, and 

credit assignment schemes. Current applications of Learning 

Classifier Systems range from data mining to on-line cognitive 

control.

Learning Classifier Systems are a very active research field with a 

dedicated workshop (the International Workshop on Learning Classifier 

Systems - IWLCS) organized every year since 1999.

Recently, parallelization and application of LCSs to data mining 

problems are receiving a great deal of attention. In addition, the 

field also benefits from advances in reinforcement learning, adaptive 

filtering, and machine learning that are continuously exploited to 

improve and extend LCSs.

The aim of this special issue is to bring together recent advances as 

well as the most promising applications of Learning Classifier 

Systems.

To this purpose, we encourage the submission of extended versions of 

IWLCS 2010-2011 contributions, as well as the submission of novel 

contributions ranging from cutting edge research to future outlooks.

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, ...)

*Submission Format*

Manuscripts should be prepared according to the instructions 

available at http://www.springer.com/12065 (under "Information for 

Authors" section) and submission should be done on-line at 

http://www.editorialmanager.com/evin/

*Important dates*

Paper submission deadline: December 20, 2011

Notification to authors: February 20, 2012

Camera-Ready submission: March 20, 2012

*Contact*

If you encounter any problems during submission or if you require 

further information, do not hesitate to send an email to the guest 

editors: loia...@elet.polimi.it, aorr...@gmail.com, 

Ryan.J.U...@dartmouth.edu