Inductive process modeling

Machine Learning

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-32

  Bridewell, Will ^a   Langley, Pat ^a   Todorovski, Ljupčo ^b   Džeroski, Sašo ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Compositional modeling; Ecosystem modeling; Process models; Scientific discovery; System identification

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COMPOSITIONAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; PROCESS MODELS; SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 40849114938     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: 15730565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10994-007-5042-6     Document Type: Article

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