Self-adaptive constructivism in Neural XCS and XCSF

  • Authors:
  • Gerard D. Howard;Larry Bull;Pier-Luca Lanzi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kngdm;University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kngdm;Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

For artificial entities to achieve high degrees of autonomy they will need to display appropriate adaptability. In this sense adaptability includes representational flexibility guided by the environment at any given time. This paper presents the use of constructivism-inspired mechanisms within a neural learning classifier system which exploits parameter self-adaptation as an approach to realize such behaviour. The system uses a rule structure in which each is represented by an artificial neural network. It is shown that appropriate internal rule complexity emerges during learning at a rate controlled by the system. Further, the use of computed predictions is shown possible.