Many automated learning procedures lack interpretability, operating effectively as a black box: providing a prediction tool but no explanation of the underlying dynamics that driv...
Constructive Induction is the process of transforming the original representation of hard concepts with complex interaction into a representation that highlights regularities. Mos...
This paper describes a successful but challenging application of data mining in the railway industry. The objective is to optimize maintenance and operation of trains through prog...
Web page classification is important to many tasks in information retrieval and web mining. However, applying traditional textual classifiers on web data often produces unsatisfyi...
This paper describes a framework for the automatic evaluation and deployment of pattern recognizers. We identify several classes of user and usage patterns of the system, and desc...