Learning in the "real world"

Machine Learning

Volumn 30, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 133-163

  Saitta, Lorenza ^a   Neri, Filippo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Application life cycles; Real world applications

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION; ROBOTICS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; APPLICATIONS; DESIGN; TECHNOLOGY;

APPLICATION LIFE CYCLES; REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS; TWO-WAY PROCESSES;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032001170     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007448122119     Document Type: Article

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