Handling continuous data in top-down induction of first-order rules

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1321, Issue , 1997, Pages 24-35

  Malerba, Donato ^a   Esposito, Floriana ^a   Semeraro, Giovanni ^a   Caggese, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CLASSIFICATION RULES; DISCRETIZATIONS; DOCUMENT UNDERSTANDING; HEURISTIC FUNCTIONS; LEARNING PROCESS; NUMERICAL INFORMATION; RESEARCH ISSUES; SPECIALIZATION OPERATORS;

DATA HANDLING;

EID: 84961306865     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-63576-9_93     Document Type: Conference Paper

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