Machine Learning: ECML 2002 13th European Conference on Machine

This book constitutes the refereed preceedings of the 13th European Conference on Machine Learning, ECML 2002, held in Helsinki, Finland in August 2002. The 41 revised full papers presented together with 4 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and

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

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Tapio Elomaa Heikki Mannila Hannu Toivonen (Eds.)

Machine Learning: ECML 2002 13th European Conference on Machine Learning Helsinki, Finland, August 19-23, 2002 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 Tapio Elomaa Heikki Mannila Hannu Toivonen University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science P.O. Box 26, 00014 Helsinki, Finland E-mail: {elomaa, heikki.mannila, hannu.toivonen}@cs.helsinki.fi

Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Machine learning : proceedings / ECML 2002, 13th European Conference on Machine Learning, Helsinki, Finland, August 19 - 23, 2002. Tapio Elomaa ... (ed.). - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Tokyo : Springer, 2002 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 2430 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-44036-4

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, F.2.2, F.4.1

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Preface

We are pleased to present the proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Machine Learning (LNAI 2430) and the 6th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (LNAI 2431). These two conferences were colocated in Helsinki, Finland during August 19–23, 2002. ECML and PKDD were held together for the second year in a row, following the success of the colocation in Freiburg in 2001. Machine learning and knowledge discovery are two highly related fields and ECML/PKDD is a unique forum to foster their collaboration. The benefit of colocation to both the machine learning and data mining communities is most clearly displayed in the common workshop, tutorial, and invited speaker program. Altogether six workshops and six tutorials were organized on Monday and Tuesday. As invited speakers we had t