@TechReport{aha:thesis,
Author      = "D. W. Aha",
Title       = "{A Study of Instance-Based Algorithms for Supervised
                Learning Tasks: Mathematical, Empirical and Psychological
                Evaluations}",
Institution = "{University of California, Irvine}",
Month       = "November",
Year        = "1990",
Type        = "{PhD. Thesis; Technical Report No. 90-42}"
}

@Incollection{atkeson:assoc-memory,
AUTHOR      = "C. G. Atkeson and D. J. Reinkensmeyer",
TITLE       = "{Using associative content-addressable memories to control robots}",
BOOKTITLE   = "{Neural Networks for Control}",
EDITOR      = "W. T. Miller and R. S. Sutton and P. J. Werbos",
PUBLISHER   = "{MIT Press}",
YEAR        = "1989"
}

@Incollection{atkeson:approximating,
AUTHOR      = "C. G. Atkeson",
TITLE       = "{Memory-Based Approaches to Approximating Continuous Functions}",
BOOKTITLE   = "{1990 Workshop on Nonlinear Modeling and Forecasting}",
PUBLISHER   = "{Adison-Wesley}",
YEAR        = "1990"
}

@Book{box:blocking,
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@Book{breiman:cart,
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YEAR        = "1984"
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@Inproceedings{crn:grdy,
Author      = "R. A. Caruana and D. Freitag",
Title       = "{Greedy Attribute Selection}",
Editor      = "W. W. Cohen and H. Hirsh",
Booktitle   = "{Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Eleventh International
               Conference}",
Publisher   = "{Morgan Kaufmann}",
Year        = "1994"
}

@ARTICLE{cleveland:lwr,
AUTHOR = {W. S. Cleveland and S. J. Devlin and E. Grosse},
TITLE = {Regression By Local Fitting: Methods, Properties, and Computational Algorithms},
JOURNAL = "{Journal of Econometrics}",
YEAR = {1988},
VOLUME = {37},
PAGES = {87--114}
}

@Article{clvl:lcll,
Author      = "W. S. Cleveland and S. J. Delvin",
Title       = "{Locally Weighted Regression: An Approach to Regression Analysis by Local Fitting}",
Journal     = "{Journal of the American Statistical Association}",
Volume      = "83",
Number      = "403",
Pages       = "596-610",
Month       = "September",
Year        = 1988
}

@inproceedings{cover:bound,
AUTHOR      = "T.M. Cover and P.E. Hart",
TITLE       = "{Nearest Neighbor Pattern Classification}",
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YEAR        = "1967"
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@Book{dasarathy:collection,
AUTHOR      = "B. V. Dasarathy",
TITLE       = "{Nearest Neighbor Norms: NN Patern Classifaction Techniques}",
PUBLISHER   = "{IEEE Computer Society Press}", 
YEAR        = "1991"
}


@ARTICLE{efron:statistical,
AUTHOR      = "B. Efron and R. Tibshirani",
TITLE       = "{Statistical Data Analysis in the Computer Age}",
JOURNAL     = "{Science}",
VOLUME      = "253",
PAGES 	    = "390--395",
YEAR        = "1991"
}

@MISC{energy:shootout,
TITLE	    = "{The great energy predictor shootout}",
BOOKTITLE   = "{AHRAE Metting, Denver, Colorado}",
AUTHOR      = "J. F. Kreider and J. S. Haberl",
MONTH       = "June",
YEAR        = "1993"
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@inproceedings{ettinger:registration,
AUTHOR      = "G. J. Ettinger and W. E. L. Grimson and T. Lozano-P\'{e}rez",
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BOOKTITLE   = "{AAAI Spring Symposium Series: Applications of Computer Vision in Medical Image Processing}",
MONTH	    = "March",
YEAR        = "1994"
}

@TechReport{fix:nonparametric,
AUTHOR      = "E. Fix and J.L. Hodges",
TITLE       = "{Discriminatory Analysis: Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties}",
INSTITUTION = "{USAF School of Aviation Medicine}",
YEAR        = "1951",
TYPE        = "{Project 21-49-004, Report Number 4.}"
}

@TechReport{friedman:mars,
AUTHOR      = "J. H. Friedman",
TITLE       = "{Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines}",
INSTITUTION = "{Stanford University, Department of Statistics}",
MONTH       = "November",
YEAR        = "1988",
TYPE        = "{Technical Report No. 102}"
}

@ARTICLE{gerig:unsupervised,
AUTHOR      = "G. Gerig and J. Martin and R. Kikinis and O. Kubler and M. Shenton and F. A. Jolesz",
TITLE       = "{Unsupervised tissue type segmentation of 3D dual-echo MR head data}",
JOURNAL     = "{Image and Vision Computing}",
VOLUME      = "10",
YEAR        = "1992"
}

@book{goldberg:genetic,
author = "D. Goldberg",
title = "Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization and Machine Learning",
publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
address = "Reading, MA",
year = "1989"
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@Inproceedings{grtc:lrnn,
Author      = "J. Gratch and S. Chien and G. DeJong",
Title       = "{Learning Search Control Knowledge for Deep Space
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Booktitle   = "{Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on 
               Machine Learning}",
Publisher   = "{Morgan Kaufmann}",
Month       = "June",
Year        = "1993"
}

@TechReport{gratch:bandit,
AUTHOR      = "J. Gratch",
TITLE       = "{An effective method for correlated selection problems}",
INSTITUTION = "{University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign}",
YEAR        = "1994",
TYPE        = "{Department of Computer Science Technical Report Num. 1893}"
}

@inproceedings{greiner:palo,
AUTHOR      = "R. Greiner and I. Jurisica",
TITLE       = "{A statistical approach to solving the EBL utility problem}",
BOOKTITLE   = "{Proceedings of the Tenth International conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-92)}",
PUBLISHER   = "{MIT Press}",
YEAR        = "1992"
}

@ARTICLE{haussler:genpac,
AUTHOR = {D. Haussler},
TITLE = {"Decision theoretic generalizations of the PAC model for neural net and Other learning applications"},
JOURNAL = "{Information and Computation}",
YEAR = {1992},
VOLUME = {100},
PAGES = {78--150}
}

@ARTICLE{hoeffding:bound,
AUTHOR = {W. Hoeffding},
TITLE = {Probability Inequalities for sums of bounded random variables},
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VOLUME = {58},
PAGES = {13--30}
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@ARTICLE{holte:simple,
AUTHOR = {R. C. Holte},
TITLE = {Very Simple Classification Rules Perform Well on Most Commonly-Used Datasets},
JOURNAL = "{Machine Learning}",
YEAR = {1993},
VOLUME = {11},
PAGES = {63-91}
}

@Inproceedings{jhn:irrl,
Author      = "G. H. John and R. Kohavi and K. Pfleger",
Title       = "{Irrelevant features and the Subset Selection Problem}",
Editor      = "W. W. Cohen and H. Hirsh",
Booktitle   = "{Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Eleventh International
               Conference}",
Publisher   = "{Morgan Kaufmann}",
Year        = "1994"
}

@TechReport{johnson:thesis,
Author      = "M. P. Johnson",
Title       = "{Reinforcement Learning of a Pinball Controller Using Directed Random Search}",
Institution = "{Massacusetts Institute of Technology}",
Month       = "May",
Year        = "1993",
Type        = "{Bachelor's Thesis}"
}

@Incollection{jordan:adaptive_experts,
AUTHOR      = "M. I. Jordan and R. A. Jacobs",
TITLE       = "{Hierarchies of adaptive experts}",
BOOKTITLE   = "{Neural Information Systems 4}",
EDITOR      = "J. Moody and S. Hanson and R. Lippman",
PUBLISHER   = "{Morgan Kaufmann}",
YEAR        = "1992"
}

@TechReport{kaelbling:thesis,
AUTHOR      = "L. P. Kaelbling",
TITLE       = "{Learning in Embedded Systems}",
INSTITUTION = "{Stanford University, Department of Computer Science}",
MONTH       = "June",
YEAR        = "1990",
TYPE        = "{PhD. Thesis; Technical Report No. TR-90-04}"
}

@article{kirkpatrick:annealing,
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journal = "Science",
year = "1983",
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pages = "671--680"
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@ARTICLE{Lowe:95,
author = {D. G. Lowe},
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pages = {72-85},
year = "1995",
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@Inproceedings{maron:hoeffding,
AUTHOR     = "O. Maron and A. W. Moore",
TITLE      = "{Hoeffding Races: Accelerating model selection search for classification and function approximation}",
BOOKTITLE  = "{Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6}",
EDITOR     = "J. D. Cowan and G. Tesauro and J. Alspector",
PUBLISHER  = "{Morgan Kaufmann}",
MONTH      = "April",
YEAR       = "1994"
}

@TechReport{maron:thesis,
Author      = "O. Maron",
Title       = "{Hoeffding Races: Model Selection for MRI Classification}",
Institution = "{Dept. of Electrical Engeineering and Computer Science, M.I.T.}",
Month       = "May",
Year        = "1994",
Type        = "{Masters Thesis}"
}

@Book{mllr:sbst,
Author      = "A. J. Miller",
Title       = "{Subset Selection in Regression}",
Publisher   = "{Chapman and Hall}",
Year        = "1990"
}

@Inproceedings{moore:forward,
AUTHOR     = "A. W. Moore",
TITLE      = "{Fast, robust adaptive control by learning only forward models}",
BOOKTITLE  = "{Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 4}",
EDITOR     = "J. E. Moody and S. J. Hanson and R. P. Lippman",
PUBLISHER  = "{Morgan Kaufmann}",
MONTH      = "April",
YEAR       = "1992"
}

@Incollection{moore:brute-force,
AUTHOR      = "A. W. Moore and D. J. Hill and M. P. Johnson",
TITLE       = "{An empirical investigation of brute force to choose
                features, smoothers and function approximators}",
EDITOR      = "S. Hanson and S. Judd and T. Petsche",
BOOKTITLE   = "{Computational Learning Theory and
                Natural Learning Systems, Volume 3}",
PUBLISHER   = "{MIT Press}",
YEAR        = "1992"
}

@TechReport{moore:control,
Author      = "A. W. Moore and C. G. Atkeson",
Title       = "{An Investigation of Memory-based Function Approximation for Learning Control}",
Institution = "{Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, M.I.T.}",
Month       = "July",
Year        = "1992"
}

@Incollection{moore:schemata,
AUTHOR      = "A. W. Moore and M. S. Lee",
TITLE       = "{Efficient Algorithms for Minimizing Cross Validation Error}",
EDITOR      = "William W. Cohen and Haym Hirsh",
BOOKTITLE   = "{Machine Learning 11}",
PUBLISHER   = "{Morgan Kauffman}",
YEAR        = "1994"
}

@MISC{murphy:repository,
AUTHOR	    = "P. M. Murphy and D. W. Aha",
TITLE       = "{UCI repository of machine learning databases.  For more information contact ml-repository@ics.uci.edu}",
YEAR        = "1995"
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@Misc{omohundro:suggestion,
AUTHOR	    = "S. Omohundro",
TITLE	    = "Private communication",
YEAR        = "1993"
}

@Book{pollard:stochastic,
AUTHOR      = "D. Pollard",
TITLE       = "{Convergence of Stochastic Processes}",
PUBLISHER   = "Springer-Verlag", 
YEAR        = "1984"
}

@Book{preparata:comp-geometry,
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YEAR        = "1985"
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@book{press:recipes,
author = "W. H. Press and S. A. Teukolsky and W. T. Vetterling and 
B. P. Flannery",
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publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
address = "New York",
edition = "Second",
year = "1992"
}

@Book{quinlan:c45,
AUTHOR      = "J. R. Quinlan",
TITLE       = "{C4.5: programs for machine learning}",
PUBLISHER   = "Morgan Kaufmann", 
YEAR        = "1992"
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@TechReport{rivest:bandit,
Author      = "R. L. Rivest and Y. Yin",
Title       = "{Simulation Results for a new two-armed bandit heuristic}",
Institution = "{Laboratory for Computer Science, M.I.T.}",
Month       = "February",
Year        = "1993"
}

@Inproceedings{schaal:openloop,
AUTHOR     = "S. Schaal and C. G. Atkeson",
TITLE      = "{Open loop stable control strategies for robot juggling}",
BOOKTITLE  = "{Proceedings of IEEE conference on Robotics and Automation}",
MONTH      = "May",
YEAR       = "1993"
}


@Article{schaffer:overfitting,
AUTHOR      = "C. Schaffer",
TITLE       = "{Overfitting avoidance as bias}",
JOURNAL     = "{Machine Learning}",
VOLUME      = "10",
PAGES 	    = "153-178",
YEAR        = "1993"
}

@Article{schaffer:classifiers,
AUTHOR      = "C. Schaffer",
TITLE       = "{Selecting a Classification Method by Croos-Validation}",
JOURNAL     = "{Machine Learning}",
VOLUME      = "13",
PAGES 	    = "135-143",
YEAR        = "1993"
}

@Book{schm:msrn,
Author      = "S. A. Schmitt",
Title       = "{Measuring Uncertainty: An elementary introduction to Bayesian
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Publisher   = "{Addison-Wesley}",
Year        = "1969"
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@Inproceedings{sklk:prtt,
Author      = "D. B. Skalak",
Title       = "{Prototype and Feature Selection by Sampling and Random
               Mutation Hill Climbing Algorithms}",
Editor      = "W. W. Cohen and H. Hirsh",
Booktitle   = "{Machine Learning: Proceedings of the Eleventh International
               Conference}",
Publisher   = "{Morgan Kaufmann}",
Year        = "1994"
}

@Article{stanfill:memory,
AUTHOR      = "C. Stanfill and D. Waltz",
TITLE       = "{Towards memory-based reasoning}",
JOURNAL     = "{Communications of the ACM}",
VOLUME      = "29",
NUMBER      = "12",
PAGES       = "1213--1228",
MONTH       = "December",
YEAR        = 1986
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@Article{wahba:xval,
AUTHOR      = "G. Wahba and S. Wold",
TITLE       = "{A completely automatic french curve: Fitting spline functions
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JOURNAL     = "{Communications in Statistics}",
VOLUME      = "4",
NUMBER      = "1",
YEAR        = "1975"
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@Book{weiss:systems,
Author      = "S. M. Weiss and C. A. Kulikowski",
Title       = "{Computer systems that learn: Classification and prediction methods from statistics, neural nets, machine learning, and expert systems}",
Publisher   = "{Morgan-Kaufmann}",
address = "San Mateo, CA",
Year        = "1991"
}

@Article{wlch:thsg,
Author      = "B. L. Welch",
Title       = "{The significance of the difference between two means
                when the population variances are unequal}",
Journal     = "{Biometrika}",
Volume      = "29",
Year        = "1937"
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@inproceedings{wells:shadowing,
AUTHOR      = "W. M. Wells and W. E. L. Grimson and R. Kikinis and F. A. Jolesz",
TITLE       = "{In-Vivo Intensity Correction and Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Image Data}",
BOOKTITLE   = "{AAAI Spring Symposium Series: Applications of Computer Vision in Medical Image Processing}",
MONTH	    = "March",
YEAR        = "1994"
}

@TechReport{wolpert:overfitting,
AUTHOR      = "D. H. Wolpert",
TITLE       = "{On overfitting avoidance as bias}",
INSTITUTION = "{The Santa Fe Institute}",
YEAR        = "1993",
TYPE        = "{Technical Report No. 92-03-5001}"
}

@Article{zhang:protein,
AUTHOR = "Zhang, X. and Mesirov, J.P. and Waltz, D.L.",
TITLE = "Hybrid system for protein secondary structure prediction",
JOURNAL = "{Journal of Molecular Biology}",
YEAR = "1992",
VOLUME = "225",
PAGES = "1049--1063"
}