The 11th edition of the International Workshop on Learning Classifier System 2008 is hot. So far a lot of idea exchange and interesting discussions. So far Gilles Enee, myself, Natalio Krasnogor, Albert Oriols, Thyago Duque covering map problems, encoding language and model building, TSP and metaheuristics, learning association rules, and multi class labeling. Had to rush back to the next one :D
Yup, I am just packing on the run. Should get to Atlanta late afternoon or early evening. Wish me luck :D A bit of information about the city provided by Wikipedia Atlanta (pronounced /ətˈlæntə/ or /ætˈlæntə/) is the capital and the most populous city in the state of Georgia, and the core city of the ninth most populous metropolitan area in the United States at 5,278,904. It is the county seat of Fulton County, although a small portion of the city extends into DeKalb County. As of July 2007, the city of Atlanta had a population of 519,145[4], and a combined statistical area population of 5,626,400[5]. Residents of the city are known as Atlantans.[6] ...
If you are looking for a list of the related blogging done during ICEIS 2008 just follow this link. During Sunday morning I run into Angel A. Juan, an assistant professor at Open University of Catalonia (UOC), interested on analyzing online teaching efforts and how tools to assist professors monitoring students performance on online media. I visited him yesterday at his office and we got and interesting exchange of ideas. Most of them revolved around the work we have conducted under the DISCUS project, and how similar is our efforts on marketing focus groups and their online teaching environment. His group, Distributed, Parallel and Collaborative Systems, was also interested on the work done under the SEASR project, mostly focusing on the Meadre infrastructure for data-intensive flow computing we are getting close to release. ...
This is the final sprint for ICEIS. I have been mostly focusing on posters this morning. It his hard to pick one up. I would just say that there was some interesting work on personalized recommender systems—paper 219. But as I said, there were a bunch of interesting ones and quite a few interesting by-the-poster conversations. Actually, I am having a very interesting time after the mix of attendees’ profiles. The morning finally meandered into Ricardo Baeza-Yates’s keynote talk. After the initial technical problems—presentation mode of OpenOffice running on Ubuntu 8.0.4 got up just 75% of the slide area—they finally succeeded on getting something up and get the talk started. This was a pretty technical talk about Yahoo! research effort on caching to improve the performance and also help scalability and contain cost on the coming years. Besides several cache techniques, he also presented a bunch of possible paralyzation models based on document/term partitions. A thing he breezed over was the machine learning model for classifying queries. That surfaced several places, from predicting common and rare content, to frequent, unfrequent, and rare queries. I was glad that the technical problems were solve and we could enjoy it. And the conference is finally close. Next year, Milan. ...
The morning started with Jean-Marie Favre and his invited speech about “Software languages through the ages”. Quite an eclectic presentation that was quite a bit thought provoking. Some excerpts out of his amalgam of concepts: Human kind is defined by language Civilization is defined by writing Languages expand across a vast period of history, computer science for just a few millimeters in such history line You may agree or dispute his claims, but you cannot dispute that it was a thought provoking talk. His bottom line, the next research frontier software language engineering and software linguistics. You can find more information at planet-sl.org. Then I run to attend the presentation of paper 263 and 344. I would mention Texas Tech’s SORCER effort and their effort on service-oriented infrastructure to approach programming large-scale networked systems—their approach also take from the get go issues like availability and fault tolerance. Unfortunately I could not finish the presentation because I had to run because it was my turn. The afternoon started with papers 331, 346, and 723. The last one was presenting IBM’s work on modeling life cycles, and their effort of making it a generic model. The last round of papers 87, 614, and 655 where rather eclectics, RDF, RFID tags, and Wikipedia. Quite an interesting combinations. Also the afternoon was crowded with interesting hallway conversations, despite the gray day outside :) ...