Machine Learning: ECML-93: European Conference on Machine Learning, Vienna, Austria, April 5-7, 1993. Proceedings

This volume contains the proceedings of the Eurpoean

Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-93), continuing the

tradition of the five earlier EWSLs (European Working

Sessions on Learning). The aim of these conferences is to

provide a platform for presenting the latest results in the

area of machine learning.

The ECML-93 programme included invited talks, selected

papers, and the presentation of ongoing work in poster

sessions. The programme was completed by several workshops

on specific topics. The volume contains papers related

to all these activities.

The first chapter of the proceedings contains two invited

papers, one by Ross Quinlan and one by Stephen Muggleton on

inductive logic programming. The second chapter contains 18

scientific papers accepted for the main sessions of the

conference. The third chapter contains 18 shorter position

papers. The final chapter includesthree overview papers

related to the ECML-93 workshops.