| Multistrategy Learning: A Special Issue of Machine Learning Contributor(s): Michalski, Ryszard S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0792393740 ISBN-13: 9780792393740 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $208.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Intelligence (ai) & Semantics |
| Dewey: 006.31 |
| LCCN: 93022647 |
| Series: The Springer International Engineering and Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 6.52" W x 9.6" (0.95 lbs) 155 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Most machine learning research has been concerned with the development of systems that implememnt one type of inference within a single representational paradigm. Such systems, which can be called monostrategy learning systems, include those for empirical induction of decision trees or rules, explanation-based generalization, neural net learning from examples, genetic algorithm-based learning, and others. Monostrategy learning systems can be very effective and useful if learning problems to which they are applied are sufficiently narrowly defined. Many real-world applications, however, pose learning problems that go beyond the capability of monostrategy learning methods. In view of this, recent years have witnessed a growing interest in developing multistrategy systems, which integrate two or more inference types and/or paradigms within one learning system. Such multistrategy systems take advantage of the complementarity of different inference types or representational mechanisms. Therefore, they have a potential to be more versatile and more powerful than monostrategy systems. On the other hand, due to their greater complexity, their development is significantly more difficult and represents a new great challenge to the machine learning community. Multistrategy Learning contains contributions characteristic of the current research in this area. |