For Real! XCS with Continuous-Valued Inputs

Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 299-336

  Stone, Christopher ^a   Bull, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Checkerboard problem; Continuous valued input; Interval representation; Learning classifier system; Operator bias; Real input; Real multiplexer problem; Representational bias; Sampling bias; XCS

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MULTIPLEXING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LEARNING CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS (LCS);

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0043284110     PISSN: 10636560     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106365603322365315     Document Type: Article

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