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SUNDAY, JULY 8 2007

  8:00 - 8:20                Introduction (Jaume Bacardit)

  8:20 - 9:50                Session I: New Paradigms (Chair: James Marshall)

1.       8:20  A principled foundation of LCS
           
Jan Drugowitsch & Alwyn Barry

2.       8:50  Substructural surrogates for learning decomposable classification problems: Implementation and first results
           
Albert Orriols-Puig, Kumara Sastry, David E. Goldberg, & Ester Bernadó-Mansilla

3.        9:20  MILCS: A learning classifier system with mutual-information-based fitness
           
Robert E. Smith & Max Jiang

  9:50 - 10:20             Coffee break

  10:20 - 12:20           Session II: Representations (Chair: Larry Bull)

1.        10:20  Genetically programmed learning classifier system: Description and results
           
Gregory A. Harrison & Eric W. Worden

2.        10:50  Fuzzy-UCS: Preliminary results
           
Albert Orriols-Puig, Jorge Casillas, & Ester Bernadó-Mansilla

3.       11:20  Investigating scaling of abstracted LCS utilizing ternary and S-expression alphabets
           
Charalambos Ioannides & Will Browne

4.       11:50  An approach to analyze the evolution of symbolic conditions in learning classifier systems
           
Pier Luca Lanzi, Stefano Rocca, & Stefania Solari

  12:20 - 13:50           Lunch Break

  13:50 - 15:20           Session III: Analysis, Extensions, and Applications (Chair: Xavier Llorą)

1.       13:50  Bayesian estimation of rule accuracy in UCS
            
James A.R. Marshall, Gavin Brown, & Tim Kovacs

2.       14:20  Toward a better understanding of rule initialization and deletion
            
Tim Kovacs & Larry Bull

3.       14:50  Portfolio allocation using XCS experts in technical analysis, marked conditions and options market
            
Sor Ying (Byron) Wong & Sonia Schulenburg

15:20 - 15:40           Poster spotlights

                                   Cascaded Generic XCS to Learn About Reminding Preferences
                                      Nadine Richard, Samuel Tardieu, & Seiji Yamada

                                   Collective Behavior based Hierarchical XCS
                                      Matthew Gershoff & Sonia Schulenburg

                                   On Lookahead and Latent Learning in Simple LCS
                                      Larry Bull

  15:40 – 16:10          Coffee break

  16:10 - 18:00           Session IV: Poster session, Panel Discussion (Chair: Martin Butz)

  16:10 - 17:00           Poster session

  17:00 - 18:00           Panel discussion, organizational issues, and final comments

20:00 -                       Social Dinner

                                    Venue: Denise's Restaurant, 79 South Hampton Row, Tube: Russell Square