CLASS READINGS: PAPERS FOR REVIEW AND PRESENTATIONS

11. Monday, March 13, 2000
[This paper is worth 3.3% (5 points) extra credit.]
The Lumiere Project: Bayesian User Modeling for Inferring the
	Goals and Needs of Software Users
Horvitz, Breese, Heckerman, Hovel, Rommelse
10 pages
URL: ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/ejh/lum.zip
Scheduled presenter: Yuhui (Cathy) Liu

12. Friday, March 17, 2000
Symbolic Causal Networks for Reasoning about Actions and Plans
Darwiche and Pearl
7 pages
URL: ftp://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/R206.pdf
Scheduled presenter: Yue Jiao

13. Wednesday, March 29, 2000
KDD for Science Data Analysis: Issues and Examples
Fayyad, Haussler, and Stolorz
9 pages
URL: ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/dtg/fayyad/kdd96/fayyad-science.ps
Scheduled presenter: Arulkumar Elumalai

14. Monday, April 3, 2000
Irrelevant Features and the Subset Selection Problem
John, Kohavi, and Pfleger
9 pages
URL: ftp://robotics.stanford.edu/pub/gjohn/papers/relevance.ps
Scheduled presenter: Dingbing Yang

15. Friday, April 7, 2000
Hierarchically Classifying Documents using Very Few Words
Koller and Sahami
9 pages
URL: http://robotics.Stanford.EDU/~koller/papers/ml97.ps
Scheduled presenter: Yan Song

16. Wednesday, April 12, 2000
Learning to Extract Symbolic Knowledge from the World Wide Web
Craven, DiPasquo, Freitag, McCallum, Mitchell, Nigam, and Slattery
URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/theo-20/www/mitchell-pubs/aaai98.ps
8 pages
Scheduled presenter: Ping Zou

17. Wednesday, April 19, 2000
[This paper is worth 3.3% (5 points) extra credit.]
Generalization in the XCS Classifier System 
Wilson
10 pages
URL: http://world.std.com/~sw/ps/gxcscs.ps.gz
Scheduled presenter: Elizabeth Loza-Garay

18. Monday, April 24, 2000
[This paper is worth 3.3% (5 points) extra credit.]
Genetic Programming and Deductive-Inductive Learning: A Multistrategy Approach
Aler, Borrajo, and Isasi
9 pages
URL: http://grial.uc3m.es/~grial/aler/ML98-42.ps
Scheduled presenter: Yuhong Cheng

19. Friday, April 28, 2000
Simultaneous Feature Extraction and Selection Using a Masking Genetic Algorithm
Raymer, Punch, Goodman, Sanschagrin, Kuhn
8 pages
URL: http://garage.cps.msu.edu/papers/GARAGe97-02-05.ps
Scheduled presenter: Karthik K. Krishnakumar

20. Wednesday, May 3, 2000
[This paper is worth 3.3% (5 points) extra credit.]
A Niched Pareto Optimal Genetic Algorithm for Multiobjective Optimization
Horn, Nafpliotis, and Goldberg
7 pages
URL: ftp://ftp-illigal.ge.uiuc.edu/pub/papers/Publications/Horn/ParetoGA.WCCI.94.ps.Z
Scheduled presenter: Li Lian