文档介绍：Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 3635
Edited by J. G. Carbonell and J. Siekmann
Subseries of Lecture Notes puter Science
Joab Winkler Mahesan Niranjan
Neil Lawrence (Eds.)
Deterministic and
Statistical Methods
in Machine Learning
First International Workshop
Sheffield, UK, September 7-10, 2004
Revised Lectures
13
Series Editors
Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany
Volume Editors
Joab Winkler
Mahesan Niranjan
Neil Lawrence
The University of Sheffield, Department puter Science
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Preface
Machine learning is a rapidly maturing field that aims to provide practical meth-
ods for data discovery, ca