Machine Learning: ECML 2000: 11th European Conference on Machine Learning Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, May 31 – June 2, 2000 Proceedings

Beyond Occam’s Razor: Process-Oriented Evaluation....Pages 3-3
The Representation Race — Preprocessing for Handling Time Phenomena....Pages 4-19
Short-Term Profiling for a Case-Based Reasoning Recommendation System....Pages 23-30
 K -SVCR. A Multi-class Support Vector Machine....Pages 31-38
Learning Trading Rules with Inductive Logic Programming....Pages 39-46
Improving Knowledge Discovery Using Domain Knowledge in Unsupervised Learning....Pages 47-54
Exploiting Classifier Combination for Early Melanoma Diagnosis Support....Pages 55-62
A Comparison of Ranking Methods for Classification Algorithm Selection....Pages 63-75
Hidden Markov Models with Patterns and Their Application to Integrated Circuit Testing....Pages 75-87
Comparing Complete and Partial Classification for Identifying Latently Dissatisfied Customers....Pages 88-95
Wrapper Generation via Grammar Induction....Pages 96-108
Diversity versus Quality in Classification Ensembles Based on Feature Selection....Pages 109-116
Minimax TD-Learning with Neural Nets in a Markov Game....Pages 117-128
Boosting Applied to Word Sense Disambiguation....Pages 129-141
A Multiple Model Cost-Sensitive Approach for Intrusion Detection....Pages 142-154
Value Miner: A Data Mining Environment for the Calculation of the Customer Lifetime Value with Application to the Automotive Industry....Pages 154-161
Investigation and Reduction of Discretization Variance in Decision Tree Induction....Pages 162-170
Asymmetric Co-evolution for Imperfect-Information Zero-Sum Games....Pages 171-182
A Machine Learning Approach to Workflow Management....Pages 183-194
The Utilization of Context Signals in the Analysis of ABR Potentials by Application of Neural Networks....Pages 195-202
Complexity Approximation Principle and Rissanen’s Approach to Real-Valued Parameters....Pages 203-210
Handling Continuous-Valued Attributes in Decision Tree with Neural Network Modeling....Pages 211-219
Learning Context-Free Grammars with a Simplicity Bias....Pages 220-228
Partially Supervised Text Classification: Combining Labeled and Unlabeled Documents Using an EM-like Scheme....Pages 229-237
Toward an Explanatory Similarity Measure for Nearest-Neighbor Classification....Pages 238-245
Relative Unsupervised Discretization for Regression Problems....Pages 246-254
Metric-Based Inductive Learning Using Semantic Height Functions....Pages 254-262
Error Analysis of Automatic Speech Recognition Using Principal Direction Divisive Partitioning....Pages 263-270
A Study on the Performance of Large Bayes Classifier....Pages 271-279
Dynamic Discretization of Continuous Values from Time Series....Pages 280-291
Using a Symbolic Machine Learning Tool to Refine Lexico-syntactic Patterns....Pages 292-299
Measuring Performance when Positives Are Rare: Relative Advantage versus Predictive Accuracy — A Biological Case-Study....Pages 300-312
Mining TCP/IP Traffic for Network Intrusion Detection by Using a Distributed Genetic Algorithm....Pages 313-322
Learning Patterns of Behavior by Observing System Events....Pages 323-330
Dimensionality Reduction through Sub-space Mapping for Nearest Neighbour Algorithms....Pages 331-343
Nonparametric Regularization of Decision Trees....Pages 344-356
An Efficient and Effective Procedure for Updating a Competence Model for Case-Based Reasoners....Pages 357-368
Layered Learning....Pages 369-381
Problem Decomposition for Behavioural Cloning....Pages 382-391
Dynamic Feature Selection in Incremental Hierarchical Clustering....Pages 392-403
On the Boosting Pruning Problem....Pages 404-412
An Empirical Study of MetaCost Using Boosting Algorithms....Pages 413-425
Clustered Partial Linear Regression....Pages 426-436
Knowledge Discovery from Very Large Databases Using Frequent Concept Lattices....Pages 437-445
Some Improvements on Event-Sequence Temporal Region Methods....Pages 446-458