Wolfgang Stolzmann
	Office address: University of Wuerzburg Institute for Cognitive Psychology Roentgenring 11 D-97070 Wuerzburg, Germany	Private address: Berliner Str. 17 D-49201 Dissen a.T.W. Tel.: ++49 (0)5421/4559 or : ++49 (0)172/6667100
	email: stolzmann@web.de
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Research Interests

Analysis and modeling of learning by anticipatory behavioral control
Learning Classifier Systems (external link)
Video, German (27 MB)

Akademic Biography

• born January 16th, 1966
• 1986 - 1992: studies in Mathematics, Physics at the University of Osnabrück
• 1992: Diploma in Mathematics
  Thesis: Eine Abschätzung der optimalen Normen in der algebraischen Interpolation (German)
  Abstract
• 1992 - 1997: Research Assistent (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the faculty of mathematics / computer science at the University of Osnabrück
• 1997: Doctorial dissertation
  Thesis: Antizipatory Classifier Systems (German)
  Abstract
• 1998-2000: Research Assistent (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)
  at the institute for psychology at the University of Würzburg
• Since 01.08.2001: Researcher at DaimlerChrysler

Membership in Scientific Associations

• (German Cognitive Science Society)

Conferences

• Paper presented at the 40. Kongreß der DGPs 1996
  Theme: Lernen durch antizipative Verhaltenssteuerung in Classifier Systems
• Paper presented at the First European Workshop on Cognitive Modeling (CM '96)
  Theme: Learning Classifier Systems using the Cognitive Mechanism of Anticipatory Behavioral Control
  Postscript-file (via Berlin)
• Paper presented at the 2nd European Conference on Cognitive Science (ECCS '97)
  Theme: Two Applications of Anticipatory Classifier Systems (ACSs)
• Paper presented at the 3. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (KogWis 97)
  Theme: Untersuchungen zur Adäquatheit des Postulats einer antizipativen Verhaltenssteuerung
  zur Erklärung von Verhalten mit ACSs
• Paper presented at the Third Annual Genetic Programming 1998 Conference (GP-98)
  Theme: Anticipatory Classifier Systems
• Papers to be presented at the Second International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-99)
  Theme: Action Planning in Anticipatory Classifier Systems / Latent Learning in Khepera Robots with Anticipatory Classifier Systems
  PDF-File of the talk
• Poster at the 4. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft (KogWis99)
  Theme: Latentes S-R-E-Lernen bei Robotern
  PDF-File of the poster
• Invited talk at the Second European Workshop on Evolutionary Robotics (EvoRob2000)
  Thema: Learning in Robots using Anticipatory Classifier Systems
  Abstract
• Papers to be presented at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2000)
  Themes:
  Introducing a Genetic Generalization Pressure to the Anticipatory Classifier System - Part 1: Theoretical approach
  Abstract
  Introducing a Genetic Generalization Pressure to the Anticipatory Classifier System - Part 2: Performance Analysis
  Abstract
  
• Papers at the Fourth International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems (CASYS'2000)
  Themes:
  Anticipatory Classifier Systems - An Introduction
  Anticipatory Classifier Systems - An Overview of Applications
  
• Paper at the Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB2000)
  Theme: First Cognitive Capabilities in the Anticipatory Classifier System
  Abstract
• Organization of the Third International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-2000)
  
• Paper to be presented at the Sixth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VI)
  Theme: Investigating Generalization in the Anticipatory Classifier System
• Organization of the Fourth International Workshop on Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS-2001)
  

Publications

• Wolfgang Stolzmann (1992): Eine Abschätzung der optimalen Normen in der algebraischen Interpolation. Diplomarbeit. Universität Osnabrück, Fachbereich Mathematik / Informatik.
  Abstract
• Inge Schwank & Wolfgang Stolzmann (1994): Zur antizipativen Verhaltenssteuerung - Replikation eines Experimentes von Joachim Hoffmann. Arbeitsbericht Nr. 25. Osnabrück: Forschungsinstitut für Mathematikdidaktik.
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• Wolfgang Stolzmann (1996): Lernen durch antizipative Verhaltenssteuerung in Classifier Systems. In: H. Mandl (Hrsg.): Computergestützter Abstract-Band zum 40. Kongreß der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie. München: LMU.
• Wolfgang Stolzmann (1996): Learning Classifier Systems using the Cognitive Mechanism of Anticipatory Behavioral Control. In: Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Cognitive Modeling. Forschungsberichte des Fachbereichs Informatik, Report No. 96-39, pp. 82-89. Berlin: TU.
• Wolfgang Stolzmann (1996): Learning Classifier Systems using the Cognitive Mechanism of Anticipatory Behavioral Control - Detailed Version. Report No. 4. Osnabrück: FMD, AG Mathesis.
• Wolfgang Stolzmann (1997): Two Applications of Anticipatory Classifier Systems (ACSs). In: Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference on Cognitive Science, pp. 68-73. Manchester, UK.
  Abstract
• Wolfgang Stolzmann (1997): Untersuchungen zur Adäquatheit des Postulats einer antizipativen Verhaltenssteuerung zur Erklärung von Verhalten mit ACSs. In: Werner Krause, Uwe Kotkamp, Ralf Goertz (Hrsg.): Proceedings der 3. Fachtagung der Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft, S. 206-208. Jena: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
• Wolfgang Stolzmann (1997): Antizipative Classifier Systems. Dissertation. Fachbereich Mathematik / Informatik. Universität Osnabrück. Aachen: Shaker Verlag
  Abstract
• Wolfgang Stolzmann (1998): Anticipatory Classifier Systems. In Koza, John R., Banzhaf, Wolfgang, Chellapilla, Kumar, Deb, Kalyanmoym Dorigo, Marco, Fogel, David B., Garzon, Max H., Goldberg, David E., Iba, Hitoshi, and Riolo, Rick. (editors). Genetic Programming 1998: Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference, July 22-25, 1998, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 658-664. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann.
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• Wolfgang Stolzmann (1998): Untersuchungen zur Adäquatheit des Postulats einer antizipativen Verhaltenssteuerung zur Erklärung von Verhalten mit ACSs. In : W. Krause & U. Kotkamp (Hrsg.), Intelligente Informationsverarbeitung. Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäts Verlag.
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• Wolfgang Stolzmann (1999): Latent Learning in Khepera Robots with Anticipatory Classifier Systems. In A.S. Wu (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Workshop Programm, pp. 290-297.
  PS-file, PDF-file
• Martin Butz & Wolfgang Stolzmann (1999): Action-Planning in Anticipatory Classifier Systems. In A.S. Wu (Ed.), Proceedings of the 1999 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Workshop Programm, pp. 242-249.
  PS-file, PDF-file
• Martin Butz, David E. Goldberg, & Wolfgang Stolzmann (1999): New Challenges for an Anticipatory Classifier System: Hard Problems and Possible Solutions. IlliGAL Report No. 99019. Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  Abstract and PS-file
• Pier Luca Lanzi, Wolfgang Stolzmann, & Stewart W. Wilson (Eds.)(2000), Learning Classifier Systems - From Foundations to Applications. LNAI 1813, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
• Wolfgang Stolzmann (2000): An Introduction to Anticipatory Classifier Systems. In Lanzi, Stolzmann, & Wilson (Eds.), Learning Classifier Systems - From Foundations to Applications. LNAI 1813, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
  Abstract
• Wolfgang Stolzmann & Martin Butz (2000): Latent Learning and Action-Planning in Robots with Anticipatory Classifier Systems. In Lanzi, Stolzmann, & Wilson (Eds.), Learning Classifier Systems - From Foundations to Applications. LNAI 1813, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
  Abstract
• Butz, M., Goldberg, D.E., Stolzmann, W. (2000): Introducing a Genetic Generalization Pressure to the Anticipatory Classifier System Part 1: Theoretical Approach. In: Proceedings of the 2000 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2000).
  Abstract
• Butz, M., Goldberg, D.E., Stolzmann, W. (2000): Introducing a Genetic Generalization Pressure to the Anticipatory Classifier System Part 2: Performance Analysis. In: Proceedings of the 2000 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2000).
  Abstract
• Stolzmann, W., Butz, M.V., Hoffmann, J., Goldberg, D.E. (2000) First Cognitive Capabilities in the Anticipatory Classifier System. In: From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior.
  Abstract
• Butz, M., Goldberg, D.E., Stolzmann, W. (2000): Investigating Generalization in the Anticipatory Classifier System. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
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• Gerard, P., Stolzmann, W., & Sigaud, O. (in press) YACS: a new Learning Classifier System using Anticipation. Journal of Soft Computing, Special Issue on Learning Classifier Systems, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
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• Pier Luca Lanzi, Wolfgang Stolzmann, & Stewart W. Wilson (Eds.)(2001), Advances in Learning Classifier Systems - Third International Workshop, IWLCS-2000 (Paris, 15 - 16 September 2000), Proceedings, LNAI 1996, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
  Table of Contents (PS-file)
• Butz, M., Goldberg, D.E., Stolzmann, W. (in press): Probability-Enhanced Predictions in the Anticipatory Classifier System. In: Lanzi, Stolzmann, & Wilson (Eds.), Advances in Learning Classifier Systems - Third International Workshop, IWLCS-2000 (Paris, 15 - 16 September 2000), Proceedings, LNAI 1996, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp. 38-52.
• Holmes, J. H., Lanzi, P. L., Stolzmann, W., and Wilson, S. W. (in press): Learning classifier systems: new models, successful applications. Information Processing Letters.
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