Machine learning: ECML 2003. 14th European conference on machine learning, Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 22--26, 2003. Proceedings (Q1412214)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. The preceding conference has been reviewed (see Zbl 0997.00027). Indexed articles: \textit{Brefeld, Ulf; Geibel, Peter; Wysotzki, Fritz}, Support vector machines with example dependent costs., 23-34 [Zbl 1257.68121] \textit{Coste, François; Fredouille, Daniel}, Unambiguous automata inference by means of state-merging methods., 60-71 [Zbl 1257.68087] \textit{Daelemans, Walter; Hoste, Véronique; De Meulder, Fien; Naudts, Bart}, Combined optimization of feature selection and algorithm parameters in machine learning of language., 84-95 [Zbl 1257.68122] \textit{Ernst, Damien; Geurts, Pierre; Wehenkel, Louis}, Iteratively extending time horizon reinforcement learning., 96-107 [Zbl 1257.68123] \textit{Ferri, César; Hernández-Orallo, José; Salido, Miguel Angel}, Volume under the ROC surface for multi-class problems., 108-120 [Zbl 1257.68125] \textit{Ferri, César; Flach, Peter A.; Hernández-Orallo, José}, Improving the AUC of probabilistic estimation trees., 121-132 [Zbl 1257.68124] \textit{Fürnkranz, Johannes; Hüllermeier, Eyke}, Pairwise preference learning and ranking., 145-156 [Zbl 1257.68126] \textit{Garcia, Pascal}, A new way to introduce knowledge into reinforcement learning., 157-168 [Zbl 1257.68127] \textit{Habrard, Amaury; Bernard, Marc; Sebban, Marc}, Improvement of the state merging rule on noisy data in probabilistic grammatical inference., 169-180 [Zbl 1257.68088] \textit{Koriche, Frédéric; Quinqueton, Joël}, Robust \(k\)-DNF learning via inductive belief merging., 229-240 [Zbl 1216.68217] \textit{Tuyls, Karl; Heytens, Dries; Nowe, Ann; Manderick, Bernard}, Extended replicator dynamics as a key to reinforcement learning in multi-agent systems., 421-431 [Zbl 1257.68139]