Machine Learning: ECML 2006: 17th European Conference on Machine Learning, Berlin, Germany, September 18-22, 2006, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4212)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Machine Learning, ECML 2006, held, jointly with PKDD 2006. The book presents 46 revised full papers and 36 revised short papers together with abstracts of 5 invited talks, carefully reviewed and selected from 564 papers submitted. The papers present a wealth of new results in the area and address all current issues in machine learning.