Guest editorial: Introduction to the special issue on meta-learning

Machine Learning

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 187-193

  Giraud Carrier, Christophe ^a   Vilalta, Ricardo ^b   Brazdil, Pavel ^c  

^a ELCA Informatique SA   (Switzerland)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA MINING; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

META KNOWLEDGE; META LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 1642379397     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:MACH.0000015878.60765.42     Document Type: Editorial

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