Machine Learning, Volume 30, 1998

Volume 30, Number 1, January 1998

• Dana Ron: Guest Editor's Introduction. 5-6
• Philip M. Long, Lei Tan: PAC Learning Axis-aligned Rectangles with Respect to Product Distributions from Multiple-Instance Examples. 7-21
• Avrim Blum, Adam Kalai: A Note on Learning from Multiple-Instance Examples. 23-29
• András Antos, Gábor Lugosi: Strong Minimax Lower Bounds for Learning. 31-56
• William W. Cohen: Hardness Results for Learning First-Order Representations and Programming by Demonstration. 57-87
• Andreas Birkendorf, Eli Dichterman, Jeffrey C. Jackson, Norbert Klasner, Hans-Ulrich Simon: On Restricted-Focus-of-Attention Learnability of Boolean Functions. 89-123

Volume 30, Numbers 2-3, February 1998

• Foster J. Provost, Ron Kohavi: Guest Editors' Introduction: On Applied Research in Machine Learning. 127-132
• Lorenza Saitta, Filippo Neri: Learning in the `` Real World''. 133-163
• Michael C. Burl, Lars Asker, Padhraic Smyth, Usama M. Fayyad, Pietro Perona, Larry Crumpler, Jayne Aubele: Learning to Recognize Volcanoes on Venus. 165-194
• Miroslav Kubat, Robert C. Holte, Stan Matwin: Machine Learning for the Detection of Oil Spills in Satellite Radar Images. 195-215
• Yongwon Lee, Bruce G. Buchanan, John M. Aronis: Knowledge-Based Learning in Exploratory Science: Learning Rules to Predict Rodent Carcinogenicity. 217-240
• Paul W. Finn, Stephen Muggleton, David Page, Ashwin Srinivasan: Pharmacophore Discovery Using the Inductive Logic Programming System PROGOL. 241-270