Encyclopedia of Machine Learning Claude Sammut, Geoffrey I. Webb (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Machine Learning With Figures and Tables 123 Editors Claude Sammut School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales Sydney Australia
[email protected] Geoffrey I. Webb Faculty of Information Technology Clayton School of Information Technology Monash University P.O. Box Victoria Australia
[email protected] ISBN - - - - e-ISBN - - - - Print and electronic bundle ISBN - - - - DOI . / - - - - Springer New York Library of Congress Control Number: © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, Spring Street, New York, NY , USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Preface The term “Machine Learning” came into wide-spread use following the first workshop by that name, held at Carnegie-Mellon University in . The papers from that workshop were published as Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, edited by Ryszard Michalski, Jaime Carbonell and Tom Mitchell. Machine Learning came to be identified as a research field in its own right as the workshops evolved into international conferences and