Machine learning: ECML 2001. 12th European conference, Freiburg, Germany, September 5--7, 2001. Proceedings (Q5947950)

The articles of mathematical interest will be reviewed individually. The 9th conference 1997 has been reviewed (see Zbl 0901.68164). Indexed articles: \textit{Aït-Kaci, Hassan; Sasaki, Yutaka}, An axiomatic approach to feature term generalization, 1-12 [Zbl 1007.68146] \textit{Armengol, Eva; Plaza, Enric}, Lazy induction of descriptions for relational case-based learning, 13-24 [Zbl 1007.68546] \textit{Bensusan, Hilan; Kalousis, Alexandros}, Estimating the predictive accuracy of a classifier, 25-36 [Zbl 1007.68539] \textit{Camacho, Rui; Brazdil, Pavel}, Improving the robustness and encoding complexity of behavioural clones, 37-48 [Zbl 1007.68543] \textit{Chevaleyre, Yann; Zucker, Jean-Daniel}, A framework for learning rules from multiple instance data, 49-60 [Zbl 1007.68526] \textit{Chidlovskii, Boris}, Wrapping web information providers by transducer induction, 61-72 [Zbl 1007.68561] \textit{Dahl, Fredrik A.; Halck, Ole Martin}, Learning while exploring: bridging the gaps in the eligibility traces, 73-84 [Zbl 1007.68550] \textit{Dahl, Fredrik A.}, A reinforcement learning algorithm applied to simplified two-player Texas hold'em poker, 85-96 [Zbl 1007.68563] \textit{Driessens, Kurt; Ramon, Jan; Blockeel, Hendrik}, Speeding up relational reinforcement learning through the use of an incremental first order decision tree learner, 97-108 [Zbl 1007.68567] \textit{Eibl, Günther; Pfeiffer, Karl Peter}, Analysis of the performance of AdaBoost. M2 for the simulated digit-recognition-example, 109-120 [Zbl 1007.68573] \textit{El-Yaniv, Ran; Souroujon, Oren}, Iterative double clustering for unsupervised and semi-supervised learning, 121-132 [Zbl 1007.68545] \textit{Elomaa, Tapio; Kääriäinen, Matti}, On the practice of branching program boosting, 133-144 [Zbl 1007.68552] \textit{Frank, Eibe; Hall, Mark}, A simple approach to ordinal classification, 145-156 [Zbl 1007.68529] \textit{Gallagher, Marcus}, Fitness distance correlation of neural network error surfaces: A scalable, continuous optimization problem, 157-166 [Zbl 1007.68572] \textit{Ganascia, Jean-Gabriel}, Extraction of recurrent patterns from stratified ordered trees, 167-178 [Zbl 1007.68540] \textit{Garg, Ashutosh; Roth, Dan}, Understanding probabilistic classifiers, 179-191 [Zbl 1007.68151] \textit{Gu, Baohua; Liu, Bing; Hu, Feifang; Liu, Huan}, Efficiently determining the starting sample size for progressive sampling, 192-202 [Zbl 1007.68538] \textit{Hoffmann, Achim; Kwok, Rex; Compton, Paul}, Using subclasses to improve classification learning, 203-213 [Zbl 1007.68560] \textit{Hofmann, Thomas}, Learning what people (don't) want, 214-225 [Zbl 1007.68548] \textit{Hutter, Marcus}, Towards a universal theory of artificial intelligence based on algorithmic probability and sequential decisions, 226-238 [Zbl 1007.68143] \textit{Hutter, Marcus}, Convergence and error bounds for universal prediction of nonbinary sequences, 239-250 [Zbl 1007.68149] \textit{Kavšek, Branko; Lavrač, Nada; Ferligoj, Anuška}, Consensus decision trees: using consensus hierarchical clustering for data relabelling and reduction, 251-262 [Zbl 1007.68566] \textit{Keysers, Daniel; Macherey, Wolfgang; Dahmen, Jörg; Ney, Hermann}, Learning of variability for invariant statistical pattern recognition, 263-275 [Zbl 1007.68547] \textit{Korb, Kevin B.; Hope, Lucas R.; Hughes, Michelle J.}, The evaluation of predictive learners: Some theoretical and empirical results, 276-287 [Zbl 1007.68558] \textit{Kwedlo, Wojciech; Krȩtowski, Marek}, An evolutionary algorithm for cost-sensitive decision rule learning, 288-299 [Zbl 1007.68531] \textit{Lauer, Martin}, A mixture approach to novelty detection using training data with outliers, 300-311 [Zbl 1007.68527] \textit{Law, Martin H.; Kwok, James T.}, Applying the Bayesian evidence framework to \(\nu\)-support vector regression, 312-323 [Zbl 1007.68147] \textit{Mariano, Carlos E.; Morales, Eduardo F.}, DQL: A new updating strategy for reinforcement learning based on Q-learning, 324-335 [Zbl 1007.68537] \textit{Martin, Lionel; Moal, Frédéric}, A language-based similarity measure, 336-347 [Zbl 1007.68145] \textit{Medina-Chico, Victor; Suárez, Alberto; Lutsko, James F.}, Backpropagation in decision trees for regression, 348-359 [Zbl 1007.68532] \textit{Melluish, Thomas; Saunders, Craig; Nouretdinov, Ilia; Vovk, Volodya}, Comparing the Bayes and typicalness frameworks, 360-371 [Zbl 1007.68535] \textit{Moore, Jason H.; Parker, Joel S.; Hahn, Lance W.}, Symbolic discriminant analysis for mining gene expression patterns, 372-381 [Zbl 1007.68556] \textit{Nowé, Ann; Parent, Johan; Verbeeck, Katja}, Social agents playing a periodical policy, 382-393 [Zbl 1007.68555] \textit{Ontañón, Santiago; Plaza, Enric}, Learning when to collaborate among learning agents, 394-405 [Zbl 1007.68549] \textit{Ragg, Thomas}, Building committees by clustering models based on pairwise similarity values, 406-418 [Zbl 1007.68533] \textit{Raskutti, Bhavani; Ferrá, Herman; Kowalczyk, Adam}, Second order features for maximising text classification performance, 419-430 [Zbl 1007.68554] \textit{Sanz-González, José L.; Andina, Diego}, Importance sampling techniques in neural detector training, 431-441 [Zbl 1007.68541] \textit{Šuc, Dorian; Bratko, Ivan}, Induction of qualitative trees, 442-453 [Zbl 1007.68544] \textit{Taira, Hirotoshi; Haruno, Masahiko}, Text categorization using transductive boosting, 454-465 [Zbl 1007.68557] \textit{Tang, Lappoon R.; Mooney, Raymond J.}, Using multiple clause constructors in inductive logic programming for semantic parsing, 466-477 [Zbl 1007.68565] \textit{Todorovski, Ljupčo; Džeroski, Sašo}, Using domain knowledge on population dynamics modeling for equation discovery, 478-490 [Zbl 1007.68559] \textit{Turney, Peter D.}, Mining the Web for synonyms: PMI-IR versus LSA on TOEFL, 491-502 [Zbl 1007.68551] \textit{Vilalta, Ricardo; Brodie, Mark; Oblinger, Daniel; Rish, Irina}, A unified framework for evaluation metrics in classification using decision trees, 503-514 [Zbl 1007.68571] \textit{Vivaldi, Jordi; Márquez, Lluís; Rodríguez, Horacio}, Improving term extraction by system combination using boosting, 515-526 [Zbl 1007.68542] \textit{Vucetic, Slobodan; Obradovic, Zoran}, Classification on data with biased class distribution, 527-538 [Zbl 1007.68534] \textit{Washio, Takashi; Motoda, Hiroshi; Niwa, Yuji}, Discovering admissible simultaneous equation models from observed data, 539-551 [Zbl 1007.68536] \textit{Widmer, Gerhard}, Discovering strong principles of expressive music performance with the PLCG rule learning strategy, 552-563 [Zbl 1007.68562] \textit{Yang, Ying; Webb, Geoffrey I.}, Proportional \(k\)-interval discretization for naive-Bayes classifiers, 564-575 [Zbl 1007.68553] \textit{Zenobi, Gabriele; Cunningham, Pádraig}, Using diversity in preparing ensembles of classifiers based on different feature subsets to minimize generalization error, 576-587 [Zbl 1007.68564] \textit{Zhang, Huajie; Ling, Charles X.}, Geometric properties of naive Bayes in nominal domains, 588-599 [Zbl 1007.68150] \textit{Dietterich, Thomas G.; Wang, Xin}, Support vectors for reinforcement learning, 600 [Zbl 1007.68728] \textit{Mannila, Heikki}, Combining discrete algorithmic and probabilistic approaches in data mining, 601 [Zbl 1007.68703] \textit{Unwin, Antony}, Statistification or mystification? The need for statistical thought in visual data mining, 602 [Zbl 1007.68738] \textit{Widmer, Gerhard}, The musical expression project: A challenge for machine learning and knowledge discovery, 603-614 [Zbl 1007.68568] \textit{Wrobel, Stefan}, Scalability, search, and sampling: from smart algorithms to active discovery, 615 [Zbl 1007.68725]