Machine Learning: ECML 2003: 14th European Conference on Machine Learning, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 22-26, 2003. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
From Knowledge-Based to Skill-Based Systems: Sailing as a Machine Learning Challenge....Pages 1-8
Two-Eyed Algorithms and Problems....Pages 9-9
Next Generation Data Mining Tools: Power Laws and Self-similarity for Graphs, Streams and Traditional Data....Pages 10-15
Taking Causality Seriously: Propensity Score Methodology Applied to Estimate the Effects of Marketing Interventions....Pages 16-22
Support Vector Machines with Example Dependent Costs....Pages 23-34
Abalearn: A Risk-Sensitive Approach to Self-play Learning in Abalone....Pages 35-46
Life Cycle Modeling of News Events Using Aging Theory....Pages 47-59
Unambiguous Automata Inference by Means of State-Merging Methods....Pages 60-71
Could Active Perception Aid Navigation of Partially Observable Grid Worlds?....Pages 72-83
Combined Optimization of Feature Selection and Algorithm Parameters in Machine Learning of Language....Pages 84-95
Iteratively Extending Time Horizon Reinforcement Learning....Pages 96-107
Volume under the ROC Surface for Multi-class Problems....Pages 108-120
Improving the AUC of Probabilistic Estimation Trees....Pages 121-132
Scaled CGEM: A Fast Accelerated EM....Pages 133-144
Pairwise Preference Learning and Ranking....Pages 145-156
A New Way to Introduce Knowledge into Reinforcement Learning....Pages 157-168
Improvement of the State Merging Rule on Noisy Data in Probabilistic Grammatical Inference....Pages 169-180
COllective INtelligence with Sequences of Actions....Pages 181-192
Rademacher Penalization over Decision Tree Prunings....Pages 193-204
Learning Rules to Improve a Machine Translation System....Pages 205-216
Optimising Performance of Competing Search Engines in Heterogeneous Web Environments....Pages 217-228
Robust k -DNF Learning via Inductive Belief Merging....Pages 229-240
Logistic Model Trees....Pages 241-252
Color Image Segmentation: Kernel Do the Feature Space....Pages 253-264
Evaluation of Topographic Clustering and Its Kernelization....Pages 265-276
A New Pairwise Ensemble Approach for Text Classification....Pages 277-288
Self-evaluated Learning Agent in Multiple State Games....Pages 289-300
Classification Approach towards Ranking and Sorting Problems....Pages 301-312
Using MDP Characteristics to Guide Exploration in Reinforcement Learning....Pages 313-324
Experiments with Cost-Sensitive Feature Evaluation....Pages 325-336
A Markov Network Based Factorized Distribution Algorithm for Optimization....Pages 337-348
On Boosting Improvement: Error Reduction and Convergence Speed-Up....Pages 349-360
Improving SVM Text Classification Performance through Threshold Adjustment....Pages 361-372
Backoff Parameter Estimation for the DOP Model....Pages 373-384
Improving Numerical Prediction with Qualitative Constraints....Pages 385-396
A Generative Model for Semantic Role Labeling....Pages 397-408
Optimizing Local Probability Models for Statistical Parsing....Pages 409-420
Extended Replicator Dynamics as a Key to Reinforcement Learning in Multi-agent Systems....Pages 421-431
Visualizations for Assessing Convergence and Mixing of MCMC....Pages 432-443
A Decomposition of Classes via Clustering to Explain and Improve Naive Bayes....Pages 444-455
Improving Rocchio with Weakly Supervised Clustering....Pages 456-467
A Two-Level Learning Method for Generalized Multi-instance Problems....Pages 468-479
Clustering in Knowledge Embedded Space....Pages 480-491
Ensembles of Multi-instance Learners....Pages 492-502
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