Machine Learning: ECML 2000 11th European Conference on Machine

The biennial European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) series is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in machine learning and is the major European scienti?c event in the ?eld. The

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen

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Machine Learning: ECML 2000 11th European Conference on Machine Learning Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, May 31 – June 2, 2000 Proceedings

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell,Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany

Volume Editors Ramon L´opez de M´antaras Enric Plaza Institut d’Investigaci´o en Intellig`encia Artificial, IIIA Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CSIC Campus, U.A.B. 08193 Bellaterra, Catalonia, Spain E-mail:{mantaras/enric}@iiia.csic.es Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for

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Foreword The biennial European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML) series is intended to provide an international forum for the discussion of the latest high quality research results in machine learning and is the major European scientific event in the field. The eleventh conference (ECML 2000) held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain from May 31 to June 2, 2000, has continued this tradition by attracting high quality papers from around the world. Scientists from 21 countries submitted 100 papers to ECML 2000, from which 20 were selected for long oral presentations and 23 for short oral presentations. This selection was based on the recommendations of at least two reviewers for each submitted paper. It is worth noticing that the number of papers reporting applications of machine learning has increased in comparison to past ECML conferences. We believe this fact shows the growing maturity of the field. This volume contains the 43 accepted papers as well as the invited talks by Katharina Morik from the University of Dortmund and Pedro Domingos from the University of Washington at Seattle. In addition, three workshops were jointly organized by ECML 2000 and the European Network of Excellence MLnet: “Dealing with Structured Data in Machine Learning and Statistics Webstites