The 21 papers in this collection develop new algorithms for helping machines learn from previous data and describe the application of machine learning algorithms to image retrieval, computer vision, handwritten character recognition, text analysis, legal databases, and network security. Medical applications are discussed in several papers dealing with radiation therapy, DNA data sets, brain tumor images, and cancerous cervical cells. A contribution from Romania structures web meta-search results according to the specific interests of users, and Brazilian researchers add a beam search to a decision tree induction algorithm.
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