Machine Learning: ECML'97 Book

	Uncertain Learning Agents	3
	Constructing and Sharing Perceptual Distinctions	4
	On Prediction by Data Compression	14
	Induction of Feature Terms with INDIE	33
	Exploiting Qualitative Knowledge to Enhance Skills Acquisition	49
	Integrated Learning and Planning Based on Truncating Temporal Differences	57
	[Theta]-subsumption for Structural Matching	73
	Classification by Voting Feature Intervals	85
	Constructing Intermediate Concepts by Decomposition of Real Functions	93
	Conditions for Occam's Razor Applicability and Noise Elimination	108
	Learning Different Types of New Attributes by Combining the Neural Network and Iterative Attribute Construction	124
	Metrics on Terms and Clauses	138
	Learning When Negative Examples Abound	146
	A Model for Generalization Based on Confirmatory Induction	154
	Learning Linear Constraints in Inductive Logic Programming	162
	Finite-Element Methods with Local Triangulation Refinement for Continuous Reinforcement Learning Problems	170
	Inductive Genetic Programming with Decision Tress	183
	Parallel and Distributed Search for Structure in Multivariate Time Series	191
	Compression-Based Pruning of Decision Lists	199
	Probabilistic Incremental Program Evolution: Stochastic Search Through Program Space	213
	NeuroLinear: A System for Extracting Oblique Decision Rules from Neural Networks	221
	Inducing and Using Decision Rules in the GRG Knowledge Discovery System	234
	Learning and Exploitation Do Not Conflict Under Minimax Optimality	242
	Model Combination in the Multiple-Data-Batches Scenario	250
	Search-Based Class Discretization	266
	Natural Ideal Operators in Inductive Logic Programming	274
	A Case Study in Loyalty and Satisfaction Research	290
	Ibots Learn Genuine Team Solutions	298
	Global Data Analysis and the Fragmentation Problem in Decision Tree Induction	312
	Case-Based Learning: Beyond Classification of Feature Vectors	329
	Empirical Learning of Natural Language Processing Tasks	337
	Human-Agent Interaction and Machine Learning	345
	Learning in Dynamically Changing Domains: Theory Revision and Context Dependence Issues	353
	Author Index	361