In a survey published by Sigaud and Wilson (2007)[283] one can find an overview about important recent trends in what is called LCSs derived from GAs. As one can see from the simplified historical overview below generated from this survey enhanced by some additional information one can see that the field has already some extensions and is freely interacting with other topics like Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Markovian Decision Processes (MDPs). To start with we will have a first short look to the main idea of a Genetic Algorithm (GA) and then we will investigate the main types of the Learning Classifier Systems (LCSs).
Later it will be shown how emotional LCS (ECS) are a straightforward and substantial extension of the family of learning classifier systems.
Gerd Doeben-Henisch 2012-03-31