Tracking Context Changes through Meta-Learning

Machine Learning

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 259-286

  Widmer, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Concept drift; Context dependence; Meta learning; On line learning; Transfer

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

BAYESIAN CLASSIFIERS; CONTEXT LEARNING; INSTANCE BASED LEARNING ALGORITHMS; META LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031164523     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007365809034     Document Type: Article

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