Curriculum Vitae

Martin V. Butz, Ph.D.

Department of Cognitive Psychology III

Röntgenring 11

University of Würzburg

97070 Würzburg, Germany

Phone: +49-9306-984 204 (home), +49-931-31 2192 (work),

+49-1766-258 0291 (cell)

Fax: +49-931-31 2815

E-mail: butz[a@t]psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de

Homepage: http://www.psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de/i3pages/butz/

 

Updated: January, 2009

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Born on the 4th of August, 1975 in Würzburg, Germany.
Married to Marjorie H. Kinney since 11th of August, 2006.

Father of Samuel R. H. Butz, born on the 30th of September 2008.


Research Interests

Adaptive behavior, anticipatory mechanisms, cognitive systems, neuroscience, learning classifier systems, XCS, (recurrent, hierarchical, and self-organizing) neural networks


Education

 

Aug.1985-Aug. 1995

Student at the Gymnasium of Bad Königshofen, Germany.

Degree: Abitur

Aug. 1992-July 1993

Exchange student in Cape Town, South Africa, Elsies Rivier high school.

Sep. 1995-Aug. 2001

Diploma student of computer science with minor in mathematics (Sep.1995-Feb.1998) and psychology (March 1998-Aug. 2001) at the University of Würzburg, Germany.

Degree: Diplom mit Auszeichnung (diploma with honors).

Aug. 1999-July 2000

Visiting scholar at the Illinois Genetic Algorithms

Laboratory (IlliGAL) at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, IL, USA; research assistant at NCSA.

Sep.2001-Sep.2004

Research assistant at the Department of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Würzburg, Germany.

Jan.2002-Oct.2004

PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, IL, USA.

Degree: PhD in computer science, Advisor: David E. Goldberg.

Jan.2002-July 2002

Research assistant at the Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL)

Aug.2002-May 2003

Research assistant at NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, IL, USA

Aug.2003-July 2004

Research fellowship from the Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Option Program (CSE), University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, IL, USA

Oct. 2004-Sep.2007

Post-doctoral research assistant at the Department of Cognitive Psychology (III) at the University of Würzburg, Germany. Group leader of the European Project (FP6) “MindRACES: From reactive to anticipatory cognitive embodied systems.”

Aug.2005-Dec.2005

Visiting Assistant Professor (teaching two CS courses plus research) at the University of MissouriSt.Louis, MO, USA

since Oct.2007

Assistant Professor. Leader of research group funded by the Emmy Noether program of the German Research Foundation.


Grants, awards, & citation index

-      Diploma with honors (Diplom mit Auszeichnung, University of Würzburg, 10/2001)

-      Research fellowship from the Computational Science and Engineering Graduate Option Program (CSE), University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, IL, USA (08/2003-08/2004)

-      Research Grant in FP6: MindRACES: From Reactive to Anticipatory Cognitive Embodied Systems (FP6-511931; 10/2004-09/2007)

-      Emmy Noether Grant von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft  (BU 1335/1; 10/2007-09/2012)

-      Cited references according to cited reference search (from SSCI, 01/2009): 406 citations.

 


Professional Activities

-      Co-Organizer of the International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS 2007 and IWLCS 2008) at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007, London, UK; GECCO 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, USA).

-      Co-Organizer of workshop series Adaptive Behavior in Anticipatory Learning Systems (ABiALS 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008). The workshops were held during the Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From animals to animats (SAB 2002, 2004, 2006) and the euCognition six-monthly meeting in Munich, June 26, 2008.

-      Co-Organizer of symposium From Reactive to Anticipatory Cognitive Learning Systems at the AAAI Fall Symposium series, November 3-6, 2005, Hyatt Crystal City in Arlington, VA, USA.

-      Track chair (Learning Classifier Systems and other Genetics Based Machine Learning Techniques) for the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2006)

-      Tutorial chair for the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009).

-      Member of Program Committee, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2001-2009 (San Francisco (CA), New York (NY), Chicago (IL), Seattle (WA), Washington (DC), Seattle (WA), London (UK), Atlanta (GA), Montréal (Canada)).

-      Member of Program Committee: International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS) 2001-2009 (San Francisco (CA), Granada (Spain), Chicago (IL), Seattle (WA), Washington (DC), Seattle (WA), London (UK), Atlanta (GA), Montréal (Canada)).

-      Invited participation and poster presentation at the Cognitive Robotics, Intelligence and control workshop (http://www.cogric.reading.ac.uk/) at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, England, UK, 16-18th of August, 2006.

-      Reviewer for other conferences: CEC 2009, HIS 2008, ICML 2003, IEEE ALIFE 2007, 2009, IJCNN 2007, WCCI 2008.

-      Reviewer for journal submissions: Adaptive Behavior, Artificial Life, Artificial Intelligence Review, Constructivist Foundations, Data & Knowledge Engineering Journal, Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Data and Knowledge Engineering, Image and Vision Computing, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, International Journal of Computers and Applications, Journal of Computing and Information Technology, Journal of Global Optimization, Journal of Heuristics, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Machine Learning, Natural Computing, Neurocomputing, Neuroscience Letters, Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal.

 


Invited talks and tutorials

-      Butz, M. V. (2008). Flexible, Adaptive Bodyspace-Based Control: Learning Modular, Interactive Sensorimotor Spaces. Department of Cognitive Neurology, University Clinic Tübingen, Germany, 17th of November.

-      Butz, M. V. (2008). Flexible, Autonomous Behavioral Control: Learning and Adapting Sensorimotor Spaces. Lernen Wissen Adaptivität (LWA 2008), Würzburg, Germany, 8th of October.

-      Butz, M. V. (2007). Kognitive Robotik: Einführung und die Herausforderung der Lernens, Informatik-Kolloquium, Department of Computer Science, University of Würzburg, 29th of October.

-      Butz, M. V. (2007). Learning Classifier Systems (Tutorial) Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2008), Atlanta, GA, USA, 12th of July.

-      Butz, M. V. (2007). Combining Gradient-Based With Evolutionary Online Learning: An Introduction to Learning Classifier Systems (Tutorial) 7th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 17th of September 2007.

-      Butz, M. V. (2007). Learning Classifier Systems (Tutorial). Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), London, UK, 7th of July.

-      Butz, M. V. (2006). Emotions and Anticipations. Networking session on Embodied Emotion, Cognition and Action for Autonomous and Interactive Artifacts. IST 2006 event in Helsinki, Finland, 21-23rd of November.

-      Butz, M. V. (2006). Anticipations in Learning and Cognition. Networking session on Learning & Cognition in Humans & Machines. IST 2006 event in Helsinki, Finland, 21-23rd of November.

-      Butz, M. V. (2006). XCS: Current Capabilities and Future Challenges. NCSA/IlliGAL Gathering on Evolutionary Learning (NIGEL’2006), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA, 16th of May.

-      Butz, M. V. (2006). The XCS Learning Classifier System: From Theory to Applications. Cybernetics Intelligence Group, The University of Reading, UK, 11th of May.

-      Butz, M. V. (2006). Benefits of Anticipatory Behavior. Learning Classifier Systems Group, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, 10th of May.

-      Butz, M. V. (2006). The XCS Learning Classifier System: From Theory to Applications. School of Computer Science and I.T., University of Nottingham. UK, 9th of May.

-      Butz, M. V. (2006). Learning Classifier Systems. Organic Computing Colloquium at Munich, Germany, 23rd of February.

-      Butz, M. V. (2005). The XCS Learning Classifier System: From Theory to Applications. University of Missouri - St.Louis, MO, Math and Computer Science Department, 19th of October.

-      Butz, M. V. (2005). The XCS Learning Classifier System: From Theory to Application (Tutorial). Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2005), Washington, DC, 26th of July.

-      Butz, M. V. (2005). The XCS Learning Classifier System: From Theory to Application. Dalle Moole Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA), Lugano, Schweiz, 22nd of March.

-      Butz, M. V. (2005). Rule-based Evolutionary Online Learning Systems. Lehrstuhl für Robotics and Telematics at the University of Würzburg, Germany, 18th of Jaunary.

-      Butz, M. V. (2003). Bounding Models in Learning Classifier Systems. Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik at the University of Mannheim, Germany, 1st of July.

-      Butz, M. V. (2002). Learning Classifier Systems. Seventh International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: From animals to animats, (SAB 2002), Edinburgh, Scotland, 10th of August.

 


Teaching

                        University of Missouri St. Louis, MO, USA

Aug.2005 – Dec.2005                        CS 2710 – Computer Systems: Programming

                                               CS 5130 – Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms

                        University of Würzburg, Germany

Oct. 2006 – Feb. 2007           Seminar: Aktuelle Trends in der Künstlichen Intelligenz

                                               und Kognitionswissenschaft

Apr. 2007 – Jul. 2007            Seminar: Aktuelle Trends in der Künstlichen Intelligenz

                                               und Kognitionswissenschaft

Oct. 2007 – Feb. 2008           Seminar: Aktuelle Trends in der Künstlichen Intelligenz

                                               und Kognitionswissenschaft

                                               Praktikum: Modellierung intelligenter Systeme

Apr. 2008 – Jul. 2008            Seminar: Aktuelle Trends in der Künstlichen Intelligenz

                                               und Kognitionswissenschaft

                                               Lecture: Kognitive Systeme (Cognitive Systems). Student

evaluation: 1.4 (where 1 is best and 5 is worst).

Oct. 2008 – Feb. 2009           Praktikum: Modellierung intelligenter Systeme

                                               Seminar: Human Computer Interaction

Seminar: Forschungsarbeiten der Kognitions- und Neuropsychologie

Apr. 2009 – Jul. 2009            Lecture: Maschinelles Lernen von Verhaltens-kontrollstrukturen (Machine Learning of Behavior Control)

                                               Seminar: Aktuelle Trends in der Künstlichen Intelligenz

                                               und Kognitionswissenschaft

 


Technical Skills

Skills:

Machine learning, evolutionary computation, artificial neural networks, artificial intelligence, object-oriented design, cognitive sciences, psycholinguistics, anticipatory behavior and adaptation, cognitive systems.

Programming Languages:

C/C++, Java, Perl, Assembly, Html

Environments:

UNIX (SUSE Linux), Microsoft Windows XP.

 


Languages

German          Native speaker

English           Fluent

French            Basics

Latin               Passive

Afrikaans       Passive

 


Publications

Books

Bacardit, J., Bernadó-Mansilla, E., Butz, M.V.,  Kovacs, T.,  Llorà, X., & Takadama, K. (Eds.) (2008). Learning Classifier Systems:10th International Workshop, IWLCS 2006, Seattle, MA, USA, July 2006 and 11th International Workshop, IWLCS 2007, London, UK, July 2007 Revised Selected Papers, LNAI 4998. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.

Pezzulo, G., Butz, M. V., Castelfranchi, C. & Falcone, R. (Eds.) (2008). The Challenge of Anticipation: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis and Design of Artificial Cognitive Systems, LNAI 5225 (State-of-the-Art Survey). Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.

Butz, M. V., Sigaud, O., Pezzulo, G., & Baldassarre, G. (Eds.). (2007). Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Brains to Individual and Social Behavior, LNAI 4520 (State-of-the-Art Survey). Springer Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg.

Butz, M.V. (2006). Rule-based evolutionary online learning systems: A principled approach to LCS analysis and design. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing Series, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.

Keijzer, M., Cattolico, M., Arnold, D., Babovic, V., Blum, C., Bosman, P., Butz, M.V., Coello Coello, C., Dasgupta, D., Ficici, S.G., Foster, J., Hernandez-Aguirre, A., Hornby, G., Lipson, H., McMinn, P., Moore, J., Raidl, G., Rothlauf, F., Ryan, C., & Thierens, D. (Eds.). (2006). GECCO 2006: Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on genetic and evolutionary computation. ACM Press, Seattle, WA, USA.

Butz, M. V., Sigaud, O., & Gerard, P. (Eds.). (2003). Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: Foundations, Theories, and Systems, LNAI 2684 (State-of-the-Art Survey). Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Germany.

Butz, M. V. (2002). Anticipatory learning classifier systems. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA.

Journal Articles

Herbort, O. & Butz, M. V. (submitted). Anticipatory Planning of Sequential Hand and Finger Movements. Journal of Motor Behavior.

Pedersen, G., Butz, M. V., & Herbort, O. (submitted). Integrating Dynamics into a Human Behavior Model For Highly Flexible Autonomous Manipulator Control. IEEE Robotics and Automation, Special Issue on Cognitive Robotics.

Butz, M.V. (2008). How and Why the Brain Lays the Foundations for a Conscious Self. Constructivist Foundations, 4, 1-42.

Butz, M.V. (2008). Intentions and mirror neurons: From the individual to overall social reality. Commentary. Constructivist Foundations, 3, 87-89.

Butz, M.V. (2008). Sensomotorische Raumrepräsentationen. Informatik-Spektrum, 31, 237-240.

Butz, M.V., Lanzi, P.L., & Wilson, S.W. (2008). Function approximation with XCS: Hyperellipsoidal conditions, recursive least squares, and compaction. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 12, 355-376.

Butz, M.V., Herbort, O., & Hoffmann, J. (2007). Exploiting Redundancy for Flexible Behavior: Unsupervised Learning in a Modular Sensorimotor Control Architecture. Psychological Review, 114, 1015-1046.

Butz, M.V., Goldberg, D.E., Lanzi, P.L., & Sastry, K. (2007). Problem Solution Sustenance in XCS: Markov Chain Analysis of Niche Support Distributions and Consequent Computational Complexity. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 8, 5-37.

Hoffmann, J., Berner, M., Butz, M.V., Herbort, O., Kiesel, A., Kunde, W., Lenhard, A. (2007). Explorations of anticipatory behavioral control (ABC): A report from the cognitive psychology unit of the University of Würzburg. Cognitive Processing, 8, 133-142.

Hoffmann, J., Butz, M.V., Herbort, O., Kiesel, A., & Lenhard, A. (2007). Spekulationen zur Struktur ideo-motorischer Beziehungen. Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 14, 95-104.

Butz, M.V., Pelikan, M., Llorà, X., & Goldberg, D.E. (2006). Automated global structure extraction for effective local building block processing in XCS. Evolutionary Computation, 14, 345-380.

Butz, M.V., Goldberg, D.E., & Lanzi, P.L. (2005). Gradient descent methods in learning classifier systems: Improving XCS performance in multistep problems. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 9, 452-473.

Butz, M.V., Sastry, K., & Goldberg, D.E. (2005). Strong, stable, and reliable fitness pressure in XCS due to tournament selection. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 6, 53-77.

Butz, M.V. (2004). Anticipation for learning, cognition, and education. On the Horizon, 12, 111-116.

Butz, M.V., Kovacs, T., Lanzi, P.L., & Wilson, S.W. (2004). Toward a theory of generalization and learning in XCS. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 8, 28-46.

Butz, M.V., Goldberg, D.E., & Tharakunnel, K. (2003). Analysis and improvement of fitness exploitation in XCS: Bounding models, tournament selection, and bilateral accuracy. Evolutionary Computation, 11, 239-277.

Butz, M.V., Goldberg, D.E., & Stolzmann, W. (2002). The anticipatory classifier system and genetic generalization. Natural Computing, 1, 427-467.

Butz, M.V., & Hoffmann, J. (2002). Anticipations control behavior: Animal behavior in an anticipatory learning classifier system. Adaptive Behavior, 10, 75-96.

Butz, M.V., & Wilson, S.W. (2002). An Algorithmic Description of XCS. Soft Computing, 6, 144-153.

Conference and Workshop Papers, and Book Chapters

Bacardit, J., Bernadó-Mansilla, E., & Butz, M.V. (2008). Learning classifier systems: Looking back and glimpsing ahead. In Bacardit, J., Bernadó-Mansilla, E., Butz, M.V.,  Kovacs, T.,  Llorà, X., & Takadama, K. (Eds.) Learning Classifier Systems, LNAI 4998, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 1-21.

Butz, M.V., Herbort, O. & Pezzulo, G. (2008). Anticipatory, goal-directed behavior. In Pezzulo, G., Butz, M.V., Castelfranchi, C., & Falcone, R. (Eds.) The Challenge of Anticipation: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis and Design of Artificial Cognitive Systems, LNAI 5225, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 85-114.

Butz, M.V. & Pezzulo, G. (2008). Benefits of anticipations in cognitive agents. In Pezzulo, G., Butz, M.V., Castelfranchi, C., & Falcone, R. (Eds.) The Challenge of Anticipation: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis and Design of Artificial Cognitive Systems, LNAI 5225, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 45-62.

Butz, M.V. & Herbort, O. (2008). Context-dependent predictions and cognitive arm control with XCSF. GECCO 2008: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 1357-1364 (best paper award).

Butz, M.V., Lanzi, P. L., Llorà, X., & Loiacono, D. (2008). An analysis of matching in learning classifier systems. GECCO 2008: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 1349-1356.

Butz, M.V., Reif, K., & Herbort, O. (2008). Bridging the gap: Learning sensorimotor-linked population codes for planning and motor control. International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2008).

Butz, M.V., Stalph, P., & Lanzi, P. L. (2008). Self-adaptive mutation in XCSF. GECCO 2008: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 1365-1372.

Herbort, O., Butz, M. V., & Hoffmann, J. (2008). Multimodal goal representations and feedback in hierarchical motor control. International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2008).

Pezzulo, G., Butz, M.V., & Castelfranchi, C. (2008). The Anticipatory Approach: Definitions and Taxonomies . In Pezzulo, G., Butz, M.V., Castelfranchi, C., & Falcone, R. (Eds.) The Challenge of Anticipation: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis and Design of Artificial Cognitive Systems, LNAI 5225, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 23-43.

Pezzulo, G., Butz, M.V., Castelfranchi, C., & Falcone, R. (2008). Introduction: Anticipation in Natural and Artificial Cognition. In Pezzulo, G., Butz, M.V., Castelfranchi, C., & Falcone, R. (Eds.) The Challenge of Anticipation: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis and Design of Artificial Cognitive Systems, LNAI 5225, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 3-22.

Pezzulo, G., Butz, M.V., Castelfranchi, C., Falcone, R., Baldassarre, G., Balkenius, C., Förster, A., Grinberg, M., Herbort, O., Kiryazov, K., Kokinov, B., Johansson, B., Lalev, E., Lorini, E., Martinho, C., Miceli, M., Ognibene, D., Paiva, A., Petkov, G., Piunti, M. & Thorsteinsdottir, V. (2008). Endowing artificial systems with anticipatory capabilities: Success cases. . In Pezzulo, G., Butz, M.V., Castelfranchi, C., & Falcone, R. (Eds.) The Challenge of Anticipation: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis and Design of Artificial Cognitive Systems, LNAI 5225, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 237-254.

Stalph, P. & Butz, M. V. (2008). Towards increasing learning speed and robustness of XCSF: Experimenting with larger offspring set sizes. GECCO 2008: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Workshop Proceedings IWLCS 2008, 2023-2029.

Bacardit, J., & Butz, M.V. (2007). Data mining in learning classifier systems: Comparing XCS with GAssist. In Kovacs, T., Llorà, X., Takadama, K., Lanzi, P.L., Stolzmann, W., & Wilson, S.W. (Eds.) Learning Classifier Systems: International Workshops, IWLCS 2003-2005, LNAI 4399, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. 282-290.

Bacardit, J., Goldberg, D.E., & Butz, M.V. (2007). Improving the performance of a Pittsburgh learning classifier system using a default rule. In Kovacs, T., Llorà, X., Takadama, K., Lanzi, P.L., Stolzmann, W., & Wilson, S.W. (Eds.) Learning Classifier Systems: International Workshops, IWLCS 2003-2005, LNAI 4399, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. 291-307.

Butz, M.V. (2007). Combining Gradient-Based With Evolutionary Online Learning: An Introduction to Learning Classifier Systems. Seventh International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2007), 12-17.

Butz, M. V. (2007). Documentation of XCSFJava 1.1 plus visualization. Missouri Estimation of Distribution Algorithms Laboratory, MEDAL Report No. 2007008.

Butz, M.V. (2007). The XCSF Classifier System in Java. SIGEVOlution, 2, 2, 10-13.

Butz, M.V., Goldberg, D.E., & Lanzi, P.L. (2007). Effect of pure error-based fitness in XCS. In Kovacs, T., Llorà, X., Takadama, K., Lanzi, P.L., Stolzmann, W., & Wilson, S.W. (Eds.) Learning Classifier Systems: International Workshops, IWLCS 2003-2005, LNAI 4399, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. 104-114.

Butz, M.V., Lenhard, A., & Herbort, O. (2007). Emergent effector-independent internal spaces: Adaptation and intermanual learning transfer in humans and neural networks. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2007). 1509-1514.

Butz, M.V., Sigaud, O., Pezzulo, G., & Baldassarre, G. (2007). Anticipations, brains, individual and social behavior: An introduction to anticipatory systems. In Butz M.V., Sigaud O., Pezzulo G., & Baldassarre, G. (Eds.), Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Brains to Individual and Social Behavior. LNAI 4520, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1-18.

Herbort, O., & Butz, M.V. (2007). Encoding complete body models enables task dependent optimal behavior. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2007). 1424-1429.

Herbort, O., Ognibene, O., Butz, M.V., & Baldassarre, G. (2007). Learning to select targets within targets in reaching tasks. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL2007), 7-12.

Lanzi, P.L., Butz, M.V., & Goldberg, D.E. (2007). Empirical Analysis of Generalization and Learning in XCS with Gradient Descent. GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. 1814-1821.

Pezzulo, G., Baldassarre, G., Butz, M.V., Castelfranchi, C., & Hoffmann, J. (2007). From Actions to Goals and Vice-versa: Theoretical Analysis and Models of the Ideomotor Principle and TOTE. In Butz, M.V., Sigaud, O., Pezzulo, G., & Baldassarre, G. (Eds.), Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Brains to Individual and Social Behavior. LNAI 4520, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 73-93.

Butz, M.V., Lanzi, P. L., & Wilson, S. W. (2006). Hyper-ellipsoidal conditions in XCS: Rotation, linear approximation, and solution structure. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2006), 1457-1464.

Butz, M.V., & Pelikan, M. (2006). Studying XCS/BOA learning in Boolean functions: Structure encoding and random Boolean functions. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2006), 1449-1456.

Lima, C.F., Pelikan, M., Sastry, K., Butz, M.V., Goldberg, D.E., & Lobo, F.G. (2006). Substructural Neighborhoods for Local Search in the Bayesian Optimization Algorithm, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN IX, 232-241.

Pelikan, M., Sastry, K., Butz, M.V., Goldberg, D.E. (2006). Performance of Evolutionary Algorithms on Random Decomposable Problems, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN IX, 788-797

Pezzulo, G., Baldassarre, G., Butz, M.V., Castelfranchi, C., & Hoffmann, J. (2006). An Analysis of the Ideomotor Principle and TOTE. In Butz M.V., Sigaud O., Pezzulo G., Baldassarre G. (Eds.) Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems (ABiALS 2006).

Butz, M.V. (2005). Kernel-based, ellipsoidal conditions in the real-valued XCS classifier system. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), 1835-1842.

Butz, M.V., Goldberg, D.E., & Lanzi, P.L. (2005). Computational complexity of the XCS classifier system. In Bull, L., & Kovacs, T. (Eds.) Foundations of Learning Classifier Systems, 91-126.

Butz, M.V., Pelikan, M., Llorà, X., Goldberg, D.E. (2005). Extracted global structure makes local building block processing effective in XCS. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2005), 655-662.

Herbort, O.; Butz, M.V., & Hoffmann, J. (2005). Towards an adaptive hierarchical anticipatory behavioral control system. In Castelfranchi, C.; Balkenius, C.; Butz, M.V., & Ortony, A. (Eds.) From Reactive to Anticipatory Cognitive Embodied Systems: Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium, AAAI Press, 2005, 83-90.

Herbort, O., Butz, M.V., & Hoffmann, J. (2005). Towards the advantages of hierarchical anticipatory behavioral control. In Opwis, K., & Penner, I. (Eds.) Proceedings of the KogWis05. The German Cognitive Science Conference, Schwabe, 2005, 77.

Bacardit, J., Goldberg, D.E., Butz, M.V., Llorà, X., & Garrell, J.M. (2004). Speeding-up Pittsburgh learning classifier systems: Modelling time and accuracy. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN VIII, LNCS 3242, 1021-1031.

Butz, M.V., Goldberg, D.E., & Lanzi, P.L. (2004). Bounding learning time in XCS. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004), LNCS 3103, 739-750.

Butz, M.V., Goldberg, D.E., & Lanzi, P.L. (2004). Gradient-based learning updates improve XCS performance in multistep problems. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2004), LNCS 3103, 751-762.

Butz, M.V., Lanzi, P.L., Llorà, X., & Goldberg, D.E. (2004). Knowledge extraction and problem structure identification in XCS. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature - PPSN VIII, 8th International Conference, LNCS 3242, 1051-1060.

Butz, M.V., Swarup, S., & Goldberg, D.E. (2004). Effective online detection of task-independent landmarks. Online Proceedings for the ICML'04 Workshop on Predictive Representations of World Knowledge.

Butz, M.V., & Goldberg, D.E. (2003). Bounding the population size in XCS to ensure reproductive opportunities. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003). LNCS 2724, 1844-1856.

Butz, M.V., & Ray, S. (2003). Bidirectional ARTMAP: An artificial mirror neuron system. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IJCNN 2003). 1417-1422.

Butz, M.V., Sastry, K., & Goldberg, D.E. (2003). Tournament selection in XCS. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003). LNCS 2724, 1857-1869. (Best paper award)

Tharakunnel, K., Butz, M.V., & Goldberg, D.E. (2003). Towards building block propagation in XCS: A negative result and its implications. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2003). LNCS 2724, 1906-1917.

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List of References

David E. Goldberg
Department of General Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
104 S. Mathews Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801

Phone: ++1-217-333 0897

Fax:     ++1-217-244 5705
email:
deg[a@t]illigal.ge.uiuc.edu

Joachim Hoffmann

Department of Cognitive Psychology

University of Würzburg

Röntgenring 11

97070 Würzburg, Germany

Phone: ++49-931-31 2645

Fax:     ++49-931-31 2815

email: hoffmann[a@t]psychologie.uni-wuerzburg.de

 

Pier Luca Lanzi

Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32
I-20133 Milano, Italy

Phone: ++ 39-02-2399-3472

Fax:     ++ 39-02-2399-3411

email: lanzi[a@t]elet.polimi.it

 

Martin Pelikan

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Missouri at St. Louis, 320 CCB
8001 Natural Bridge Rd.
St. Louis, MO 63121
Phone: ++1-314-516-6348

Fax:     ++1-314-516-5400
Email: pelikan[a@t]cs.umsl.edu