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Editors' Introduction 1 - 9
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, Masayuki Numao, and Rüdiger Reischuk


INVITED PAPERS

Mathematics Based on Learning,
Abstract.
7 - 21
Susumu Hayashi

Data Mining with Graphical Models,
Abstract.
22 - 22
Rudolf Kruse and Christian Borgelt.

On the Eigenspectrum of the Gram Matrix and Its Relationship to the Operator Eigenspectrum,
Abstract.
23 - 40
John Shawe-Taylor, Chris Williams, Nello Cristianini and Jaz Kandola

In Search of the Horowitz Factor: Interim Report on a Musical Discovery Project,
Abstract.
41 - 41
Gerhard Widmer.

Learning Structure from Sequences, with Applications in a Digital Library,
Abstract.
42 - 56
Ian H. Witten



REGULAR CONTRIBUTIONS

Learning Boolean Functions

On Learning Monotone Boolean Functions under the Uniform Distribution,
Abstract.
57 - 68
Kazuyuki Amano, and Akira Maruoka.

On Learning Embedded Midbit Functions,
Abstract.
69 - 82
Rocco A. Servedio.

Maximizing Agreements and CoAgnostic Learning,
Abstract.
83 - 97
Nader H. Bshouty and Lynn Burroughs.


Boosting and Margin-Based Learning

Optimally-Smooth Adaptive Boosting and Application to Agnostic Learning,
Abstract.
98 - 112
Dmitry Gavinsky.

Large Margin Classification for Moving Targets,
Abstract.
113 - 127
Jyrki Kivinen, Alex J. Smola and Robert C. Williamson

On the Smallest Possible Dimension and the Largest Possible Margin of Linear Arrangements Representing Given Concept Classes Uniform Distribution,
Abstract.
128 - 138
Jürgen Forster and Hans Ulrich Simon


Learning with Queries

A General Dimension for Approximately Learning Boolean Functions,
Abstract.
139 - 148
Johannes Köbler and Wolfgang Lindner.

The Complexity of Learning Concept Classes with Polynomial General Dimension,
Abstract.
149 - 163
Johannes Köbler and Wolfgang Lindner.

On the Absence of Predictive Complexity for Some Games,
Abstract.
164 - 172
Yuri Kalnishkan and Michael V. Vyugin.


Learning abd Information Extraction

Consistency Queries in Information Extraction,
Abstract.
173 - 187
Gunter Grieser, Klaus P. Jantke, and Steffen Lange.

Ordered Term Tree Languages which Are Polynomial Time Inductively Inferable from Positive Data,
Abstract.
188 - 202
Yusuke Suzuki, Takayoshi Shoudai, Tomoyuki Uchida and Tetsuhiro Miyahara


Inductive Inference

Reflective Inductive Inference of Recursive Functions,
Abstract.
203 - 217
Gunter Grieser.

Classes with Easily Learnable Subclasses,
Abstract.
218 - 232
Sanjay Jain, Wolfram Menzel and Frank Stephan.

On the Learnability of Vector Spaces,
Abstract.
233 - 247
Valentina S. Harizanov and Frank Stephan.

Learning, Logic, and Topology in a Common Framework,
Abstract.
248 - 262
Eric Martin, Arun Sharma, and Frank Stephan.


Inductive Logic Programming

A Pathology of Bottom-Up Hill-Climbing in Inductive Rule Learning,
Abstract.
263 - 277
Johannes Fürnkranz.

Minimised Residue Hypotheses in Relevant Logic,
Abstract.
278 - 292
Bertram Fronhöfer and Akihiro Yamamoto.


Language Learning

Compactness and Learning of Classes of Unions of Erasing Regular Pattern Languages,
Abstract.
293 - 307
Jin Uemura and Masako Sato.

A Negative Result on Inductive Inference of Extended Pattern Languages,
Abstract.
308 - 320
Daniel Reidenbach.


Statistical Learning

RBF Neural Networks and Descartes' Rule of Signs,
Abstract.
321 - 335
Michael Schmitt

Asymptotic Optimality of Transductive Confidence Machine,
Abstract.
336 - 350
Vladimir Vovk.

An Efficient PAC Algorithm for Reconstructing a Mixture of Lines,
Abstract.
351 - 364
Sanjoy Dasgupta, Elan Pavlov, and Yoram Singer.

Constraint Classification: A New Approach to Multiclass Classification,
Abstract.
365 - 379
Sariel Har-Peled, Dan Roth, and Dav Zimak.

How to Achieve Minimax Expected Kullback-Leibler Distance from an Unknown Finite Distribution,
Abstract.
380 - 394
Dietrich Braess, Jürgen Forster, Tomas Sauer, and Hans U. Simon.


Applications and Heuristics

Classification with Intersecting Rules ,
Abstract.
395 - 402
Tony Lindgren and Henrik Boström.

Feedforward Neural Networks in Reinforcement Learning Applied to High-Dimensional Motor Control,
Abstract.
403 - 414
Rémi Coulom.

Author Index 415


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