Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition: Third International Conference, MLDM 2003, Leipzig, Germany, July 5-7, 2003, proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, MLDM 2003, held in Leipzig, Germany, in July 2003. The 33 revised full papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on decision trees; clustering and its applications; support vector machines; case-based reasoning; classification, retrieval, and feature Learning; discovery of frequent or sequential patterns; Bayesian models and methods; association rule mining; and applications.