Klaus P. Jantke

Nada Lavrač

Ljupco Todorovski

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2006, held in Barcelona, Spain in October 2006, co-located with the 17th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2006. The 23 revised long papers and the 18 revised regular papers presented together with five invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions.

9th International Conference, DS 2006, Barcelona, Spain, October 7-10, 2006, Proceedings

Discovery Science

Ricard Gavaldà

Eiji Takimoto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT 2003, held in Sapporo, Japan in October 2003. The 19 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers and abstracts of 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on inductive inference, learning and information extraction, learning with queries, learning with non-linear optimization, learning from random examples, and online prediction.

14th International Conference, ALT 2003, Sapporo, Japan, October 17-19, 2003, Proceedings

Algorithmic Learning Theory

Shigenobu Kobayashi

Etsuji Tomita

Takashi Yokomori

Annotation This volume contains the papers that were presented at theThird Workshop onAlgorithmic Learning Theory, held in Tokyoin October 1992. In addition to 3invited papers, the volumecontains 19 papers accepted for presentation, selected from29 submitted extended abstracts. The ALT workshops have beenheld annually since 1990 and are organized and sponsored bythe Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. The mainobjective of these workshops is to provide an open forum fordiscussions and exchanges of ideasbetween researchers fromvarious backgrounds in this emerging, interdisciplinaryfield of learning theory. The volume is organized into partson learning via query, neural networks, inductive inference, analogical reasoning, and approximate learning.

4th International Workshop, ALT '93, Tokyo, Japan, November 8-10, 1993. Proceedings

Koichi Furukawa

Shuji Doshita

Toyaki Nishida

This volume contains the papers that were presented at the Third Workshop onAlgorithmic Learning Theory, held in Tokyo in October 1992. In addition to 3invited papers, the volume contains 19 papers accepted for presentation, selected from 29 submitted extended abstracts. The ALT workshops have been held annually since 1990 and are organized and sponsored by the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. The main objective of these workshops is to provide an open forum for discussions and exchanges of ideasbetween researchers from various backgrounds in this emerging, interdisciplinary field of learning theory. The volume is organized into parts on learning via query, neural networks, inductive inference, analogical reasoning, and approximate learning.

Third Workshop, ALT '92, Tokyo, Japan, October 20-22, 1992. Proceedings

Algorithmic Learning Theory - ALT '92

Wolfgang Bibel

Proceedings of the International Spring School Wendisch-Rietz, GDR, April 22-26, 1985

Mathematical Methods of Specification and Synthesis of Software Systems '85

Ricard Gavalda

Setsuo Arikawa

This volume presents the proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Analogical and Inductive Inference (AII '94) and the Fifth International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT '94), held jointly at Reinhardsbrunn Castle, Germany in October 1994. (In future the AII and ALT workshops will be amalgamated and held under the single title of Algorithmic Learning Theory.) The book contains revised versions of 45 papers on all current aspects of computational learning theory; in particular, algorithmic learning, machine learning, analogical inference, inductive logic, case-based reasoning, and formal language learning are addressed.

4th International Workshop on Analogical and Inductive Inference, AII '94, 5th International Workshop on Algorithmic Learning Theory, ALT '94, Reinhardsbrunn Castle, Germany, October 10 - 15, 1994. Proceedings

In diesem Buch werden die wesentlichen Aspekte der in den letzten Jahren recht kontrovers geführten Diskussion über das Thema Krankheitsverarbeitung diskutiert. Mehrere Beiträge beschäftigen sich theoretisch und empirisch mit der Frage, ob es sinnvoll ist, Coping und Abwehr gegeneinander abzugrenzen. Ein Überblick über Meßverfahren zu Copingprozessen soll die Beurteilung von Ergebnissen erleichtern und bei der Planung und Durchführung von Untersuchungen zu diesem Thema behilflich sein. Empirische Ergebnisse bei verschiedenen Krankheitsbildern (Krebs, Herzinfarkt, chronische Niereninsuffizienz, Multiple Sklerose und Alkoholismus) und unter verschiedenen Fragestellungen demonstrieren Möglichkeiten und Grenzen unterschiedlicher methodischer Vorgehensweisen.

International Workshop AII '89 Reinhardsbrunn Castle, GDR, October 1-6, 1989, Proceedings

Analogical and Inductive Inference

Gerhard Brewka

This proceedings volume contains a selection of revised and extended papers presented at the Second International Workshop on Nonmonotonic and InductiveLogic, NIL '91, which took place at Reinhardsbrunn Castle, December 2-6, 1991. The volume opens with an extended version of a tutorial on nonmonotonic logic by G. Brewka, J. Dix, and K. Konolige. Fifteen selected papers follow, on a variety of topics. The majority of papers belong either to the area of nonmonotonic reasoning or to the field of inductive inference, but some papers integrate research from both areas. The first workshop in this series was held at the University of Karlsruhe in December 1990 and its proceedings were published as Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 543. The series of workshops was made possible by financial support from Volkswagen Stiftung, Hannover. This workshop was also supported by IBM Deutschland GmbH and Siemens AG.

Second International Workshop, Reinhardsbrunn Castle, Germany, December 2-6, 1991. Proceedings

Nonmonotonic and Inductive Logic

Peter H. Schmitt

This proceedings volume contains revised and reviewed papers based on talks presented at the first International Workshop on Nonmonotonic and Inductive Logic held in Karlsruhe, December 1990. The workshop was supported by the Volkswagen-Stiftung, Hannover, and provided a forum for researchers from the two fields to communicate and find areas of cooperation. The papersare organized into sections on: - Nonmonotonicity in logic programs - Axiomatic approach to nonmonotonic reasoning - Inductive inference - Autoepistemic logic - Belief updates The bulk of the papers are devoted to nonmonotonic logic and provide an up-to-date view of the current state of research presented by leading experts in the field. A novelty in the contributions from the area of inductive logic is the analysis of nonmonotonicity in the theory of inductive learning.

1st International Workshop, Karlsruhe, Germany, December 4-7, 1990. Proceedings

Ayumi Shinohara

These are the conference proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2001). Although discovery is naturally ubiquitous in s- ence, and scientific discovery itself has been subject to scientific investigation for centuries, the term Discovery Science is comparably new. It came up in conn- tion with the Japanese Discovery Science project (cf. Arikawa's invited lecture on The Discovery Science Project in Japan in the present volume) some time during the last few years. Setsuo Arikawa is the father in spirit of the Discovery Science conference series. He led the above mentioned project, and he is currently serving as the chairman of the international steering committee for the Discovery Science c- ference series. The other members of this board are currently (in alphabetical order) Klaus P. Jantke, Masahiko Sato, Ayumi Shinohara, Carl H. Smith, and Thomas Zeugmann. Colleagues and friends from all over the world took the opportunity of me- ing for this conference to celebrate Arikawa's 60th birthday and to pay tribute to his manifold contributions to science, in general, and to Learning Theory and Discovery Science, in particular. Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT, for short) is another conference series initiated by Setsuo Arikawa in Japan in 1990. In 1994, it amalgamated with the conference series on Analogical and Inductive Inference (AII), when ALT was held outside of Japan for the first time.

4th International Conference, DS 2001, Washington, DC, USA, November 25-28, 2001 Proceedings

Aran Lunzer

Nicolas Spyratos

Yuzuru Tanaka

The lives of people all around the world, especially in industrialized nations, continue to be changed by the presence and growth of the Internet. Its in?uence is felt at scales ranging from private lifestyles to national economies, boosting thepaceatwhichmoderninformationandcommunicationtechnologiesin?uence personal choices along with business processes and scienti?c endeavors. In addition to its billions of HTML pages, the Web can now be seen as an open repository of computing resources. These resources provide access to computational services as well as data repositories, through a rapidly growing variety of Web applications and Web services. However, people’s usage of all these resources barely scratches the surface of the possibilities that such richness should o?er. One simple reason is that, given the variety of information available and the rate at which it is being extended, it is di?cult to keep up with the range of resources relevant to one’s interests. Another reason is that resources are o?ered in a bewildering variety of formats and styles, so that many resources e?ectively stand in isolation. This is reminiscent of the challenge of enterprise application integration, - miliar to every large organization be it in commerce, academia or government. Thechallengearisesbecauseoftheaccumulationofinformationandcommuni- tion systems over decades, typically without the technical provision or political will to make them work together. Thus the exchange of data among those s- tems is di?cult and expensive, and the potential synergetic e?ects of combining them are never realized.

Klaus P. Jantke

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