Applications of Machine Learning and Rule Induction

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 54-64

  Langley, Pat ^a   Simon, Herbert A ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE;

CASE-BASED LEARNING; INSTANCE-BASED LEARNING; RULE INDUCTION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029407395     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/219717.219768     Document Type: Article

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