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Machine Learning: ECML 2002

13th European Conference on Machine Learning, Helsinki, Finland, August 19-23, 2002. Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 2430)

Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)

Conference series link(s): ECML: European Conference on Machine Learning

Conference proceedings info: ECML 2002.

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Table of contents (45 papers)

  1. Contributed Papers

    1. Towards a Simple Clustering Criterion Based on Minimum Length Encoding

      • Marcus-Christopher Ludl, Gerhard Widmer
      Pages 258-270
    2. On-Line Support Vector Machine Regression

      • Mario Martin
      Pages 282-294
    3. Q-Cut—Dynamic Discovery of Sub-goals in Reinforcement Learning

      • Ishai Menache, Shie Mannor, Nahum Shimkin
      Pages 295-306
    4. A Multistrategy Approach to the Classification of Phases in Business Cycles

      • Katharina Morik, Stefan Rüping
      Pages 307-318
    5. A Robust Boosting Algorithm

      • Richard Nock, Patrice Lefaucheur
      Pages 319-331
    6. Case Exchange Strategies in Multiagent Learning

      • Santiago Ontanón, Enric Plaza
      Pages 331-344
    7. Inductive Confidence Machines for Regression

      • Harris Papadopoulos, Kostas Proedrou, Volodya Vovk, Alex Gammerman
      Pages 345-356
    8. Macro-Operators in Multirelational Learning: A Search-Space Reduction Technique

      • Lourdes Pena Castillo, Stefan Wrobel
      Pages 357-368
    9. Propagation of Q-values in Tabular TD(λ)

      • Philippe Preux
      Pages 369-380
    10. Transductive Confidence Machines for Pattern Recognition

      • Kostas Proedrou, Ilia Nouretdinov, Volodya Vovk, Alex Gammerman
      Pages 381-390
    11. Characterizing Markov Decision Processes

      • Bohdana Ratitch, Doina Precup
      Pages 391-404
    12. Phase Transitions and Stochastic Local Search in k-Term DNF Learning

      • Ulrich Rückert, Stefan Kramer, Luc De Raedt
      Pages 405-417
    13. Discriminative Clustering: Optimal Contingency Tables by Learning Metrics

      • Janne Sinkkonen, Samuel Kaski, Janne Nikkilä
      Pages 418-430
    14. Boosting Density Function Estimators

      • Franck Thollard, Marc Sebban, Philippe Ezequel
      Pages 431-443
    15. Ranking with Predictive Clustering Trees

      • Ljupco Todorovski, Hendrik Blockeel, Saso Dzeroski
      Pages 444-455
    16. Support Vector Machines for Polycategorical Classification

      • Ioannis Tsochantaridis, Thomas Hofmann
      Pages 456-467
    17. Learning Classification with Both Labeled and Unlabeled Data

      • Jean-Noël Vittaut, Massih-Reza Amini, Patrick Gallinari
      Pages 468-479

About this book

This book constitutes the refereed preceedings of the 13th European Conference on Machine Learning, ECML 2002, held in Helsinki, Finland in August 2002.
The 41 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Among the topics covered are computational discovery, search strategies, Classification, support vector machines, kernel methods, rule induction, linear learning, decision tree learning, boosting, collaborative learning, statistical learning, clustering, instance-based learning, reinforcement learning, multiagent learning, multirelational learning, Markov decision processes, active learning, etc.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Tapio Elomaa, Heikki Mannila, Hannu Toivonen

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