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Product Description: The Sixteenth International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-99) was held June 27-30, 1999 in Bled, Slovenia. It was co-located with the Ninth International Workshop on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP-99). These are the papers from this conference covering topics on empirical, theoretical, and cognitive-modelling research in all areas of machine learning...read more

Product Description: Master the new computational tools to get the most out of your information system. This practical guide, the first to clearly outline the situation for the benefit of engineers and scientists, provides a straightforward introduction to basic machine learning and data mining methods, covering the analysis of numerical, text, and sound data...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is the first detailed account of the development of a complex and successful expert system based on deep and qualitative knowledge. It shows how the qualitative modeling approach, using logic based representations and machine learning techniques, can be used to construct knowledge bases whose complexity is far beyond the capability of traditional, dialogue based techniques of knowledge acquisition...read more