Rule-based evolutionary online learning systems : a principled approach to LCS analysis and design
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- Martin V. Butz.
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- text file
- Imprint
- Berlin : Springer, ©2006.
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (xxi, 266 pages) : illustrations
- Series
- Studies in fuzziness and soft computing ; v. 191.
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- Author/Creator
- Butz, Martin V.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Prerequisites.- Simple Learning Classifier Systems.- The XCS Classifier System.- How XCS Works: Ensuring Effective Evolutionary Pressures.- When XCS Works: Towards Computational Complexity.- Effective XCS Search: Building Block Processing.- XCS in Binary Classification Problems.- XCS in Multi-Valued Problems.- XCS in Reinforcement Learning Problems.- Facetwise LCS Design.- Towards Cognitive Learning Classifier Systems.- Summary and Conclusions.
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Rule-basedevolutionaryonlinelearningsystems, oftenreferredtoasMichig- style learning classi?er systems (LCSs), were proposed nearly thirty years ago (Holland, 1976; Holland, 1977) originally calling them cognitive systems. LCSs combine the strength of reinforcement learning with the generali- tion capabilities of genetic algorithms promising a ?exible, online general- ing, solely reinforcement dependent learning system. However, despite several initial successful applications of LCSs and their interesting relations with a- mal learning and cognition, understanding of the systems remained somewhat obscured. Questions concerning learning complexity or convergence remained unanswered. Performance in di?erent problem types, problem structures, c- ceptspaces, andhypothesisspacesstayednearlyunpredictable. Thisbookhas the following three major objectives: (1) to establish a facetwise theory - proachforLCSsthatpromotessystemanalysis, understanding, anddesign; (2) to analyze, evaluate, and enhance the XCS classi?er system (Wilson, 1995) by the means of the facetwise approach establishing a fundamental XCS learning theory; (3) to identify both the major advantages of an LCS-based learning approach as well as the most promising potential application areas. Achieving these three objectives leads to a rigorous understanding of LCS functioning that enables the successful application of LCSs to diverse problem types and problem domains. The quantitative analysis of XCS shows that the inter- tive, evolutionary-based online learning mechanism works machine learning competitively yielding a low-order polynomial learning complexity. Moreover, the facetwise analysis approach facilitates the successful design of more - vanced LCSs including Holland's originally envisioned cognitive systems. Martin V.
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- Publication date
- 2006
- Series
- Studies in fuzziness and soft computing ; v. 191
- In
- Springer e-books
- ISBN
- 9783540312314
- 3540312315
- 3540253793 (Cloth)
- 9783540253792 (Cloth)
- 6610427496
- 9786610427499
- DOI
- 10.1007/b104669.
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