The study of artificial intelligence (AI) is indeed a strange pursuit. Unlike ...The study of artificial intelligence (AI) is indeed a strange pursuit. Unlike most other disciplines few AI researchers even agree on a mutually acceptable definition of their chosen field of study. Some see AI as a sub field of computer science...more
The study of artificial intelligence (AI) is indeed a strange pursuit. Unlike ...The study of artificial intelligence (AI) is indeed a strange pursuit. Unlike most other disciplines few AI researchers even agree on a mutually acceptable definition of their chosen field of study. Some see AI as a sub field of computer science...more
Recent Advances in RobotLearning contains seven papers on robotlearning writ...Recent Advances in Robot Learning contains seven papers on robot learning written by leading researchers in the field. As the selection of papers illustrates the field of robot learning is both active and diverse. A variety of machine learning...more
Recent Advances in RobotLearning contains seven papers on robotlearning writ...Recent Advances in Robot Learning contains seven papers on robot learning written by leading researchers in the field. As the selection of papers illustrates the field of robot learning is both active and diverse. A variety of machine learning...more
Most machinelearning research has been concerned with the development of syst...Most machine learning research has been concerned with the development of systems that implememnt one type of inference within a single representational paradigm. Such systems which can be called monostrategy learning systems include those for...more
Building arobot that learns to perform a task has been acknowledged as one of...Building a robot that learns to perform a task has been acknowledged as one of the major challenges facing artificial intelligence. Self-improving robots would relieve humans from much of the drudgery of programming and would potentially allow...more
MachineLearning is a powerful new field with many important practical applica...Machine Learning is a powerful new field with many important practical applications. Thanks to the information age and flood of data it has taken many domains by storm including biology text processing internet data organization computer vision...more
This book contains a selection of papers presented at theInternational Worksh...This book contains a selection of papers presented at the International Workshop Machine Learning Meta-Reasoning and Logics held in Hotel de Mar in Sesimbra Portugal 15-17 February 1988. All the papers were edited afterwards. The Workshop...more
This book is based on the author s Ph.D. dissertation[56]. Thethe- sis resear...This book is based on the author s Ph.D. dissertation[56]. The the- sis research was conducted while the author was a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University. The book was pre- pared at the University of...more
One ofthe currently most active research areas within Artificial Intelligence...One of the currently most active research areas within Artificial Intelligence is the field of Machine Learning. which involves the study and development of computational models of learning processes. A major goal of research in this field is to...more
What follows is a sampler of work in knowledge acquisition. It comprises three...What follows is a sampler of work in knowledge acquisition. It comprises three technical papers and six guest editorials. The technical papers give an in-depth look at some of the important issues and current approaches in knowledge acquisition. The...more
Based on ideas from Support Vector Machines (SVMs) Learning To Classify Text U...Based on ideas from Support Vector Machines (SVMs) Learning To Classify Text Using Support Vector Machines presents a new approach to generating text classifiers from examples. The approach combines high performance and efficiency with theoretical...more
One ofthe most intriguing questions about the new computer technology that ha...One of the most intriguing questions about the new computer technology that has appeared over the past few decades is whether we humans will ever be able to make computers learn. As is painfully obvious to even the most casual computer user most...more
Lifelong learning addresses situations in which a learner faces a series of di...Lifelong learning addresses situations in which a learner faces a series of different learning tasks providing the opportunity for synergy among them. Explanation-based neural network learning (EBNN) is a machine learning algorithm that transfers...more
Most machinelearning research has been concerned with the development of syst...Most machine learning research has been concerned with the development of systems that implememnt one type of inference within a single representational paradigm. Such systems which can be called monostrategy learning systems include those for...more