On September 21, Tim Hansmeier, a member of our working group, defended his dissertation on “XCS for Self-Awareness in Autonomous Computing Systems”. In his work, which was evaluated with distinction, Tim has expanded the state of knowledge in learning classifier systems. He experimentally compared different exploit/explore strategies, showed how to combine guarantees with online learning through so-called forbidden classifiers, and studied the behaviour of XCS for controlling DVFS in a microprocessor. We would like to congratulate him on graduating and wish him all the best for the future.
