Learning Classifier Systems

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Learning Classifier Systems

• Navigating the fitness landscape?
• Why use evolutionary computation?
• Whats the concept of LCS?
• Early pioneers
• Competitive vs Grouped Classifiers
• Beware the Swampy bits!
• Niching
• Selection for mating and effecting
• Balance exploration with exploitation.
• Balance the pressures
• Zeroth level classifier system
• The X-factor
• Alphabet soup
• New Slants - piecewise linear approximators
• Why don't LCS rule the world?
• Simplification schemes
• Cognitive Classifiers
• Neuroscience Inspirations
• Application Domains

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Demonstrations

• Aims
• Explore how to tailor the technique to a wide
  range of applications.
• Change all parameters / methods
• And see effects!