Machine Learning: ECML 2003 14th European Conference on Machine

The proceedings of ECML/PKDD2003 are published in two volumes: the P- ceedings of the 14th European Conference on Machine Learning (LNAI 2837) and the Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Database

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

2837

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Nada Lavraˇc Dragan Gamberger Hendrik Blockeel Ljupˇco Todorovski (Eds.)

Machine Learning: ECML 2003 14th European Conference on Machine Learning Cavtat-Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 22-26, 2003 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 Nada Lavraˇc Ljupˇco Todorovski Joˇzef Stefan Institute, Dept. of Intelligent Systems Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia E-mail:{Nada.Lavrac/Ljupco.Todorovski}@ijs.si Dragan Gamberger Rudjer Boˇskovi´c Institute Bijeniˇcka 54, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia E-mail: [email protected] Hendrik Blockeel Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Dept. of Computer Science Celestijnenlaan 200A, 3001 Leuven, Belgium E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface

The proceedings of ECML/PKDD 2003 are published in two volumes: the Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Machine Learning (LNAI 2837) and the Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (LNAI 2838). The two conferences were held on September 22–26, 2003 in Cavtat, a small tourist town in the vicinity of Dubrovnik, Croatia. As machine learning and knowledge discovery are two highly related fields, the co-location of both conferences is beneficial for both research communities. In Cavtat, ECML and PKDD were co-located for the third time in a row, following the successful co-location of the two European conferences in Freiburg (2001) and Helsinki (2002). The co-location of E