Algorithmic learning theory. 9th international conference, ALT '98, Otzenhausen, Germany, October 8--10, 1998. Proceedings (Q1269999)

The articles of mathematical interest will be reviewed individually. The preceding workshop (8th, 1997) has been announced (see Zbl 0877.00015). Indexed articles: \textit{Case, John; Ott, Matthias; Sharma, Arun; Stephan, Frank}, Learning to win process-control games watching game-masters, 31-45 [Zbl 0932.68080] \textit{Apsītis, Kalvis; Freivalds, Rūsiņš; Simanovskis, Raimonds; Smotrovs, Juris}, Closedness properties in EX-identification of recursive functions, 46-60 [Zbl 0930.03046] \textit{Shevchenko, Valery N.; Zolotykh, Nikolai Yu.}, Lower bounds for the complexity of learning half-spaces with membership queries, 61-71 [Zbl 0932.68081] \textit{Fischlin, Marc}, Cryptographic limitations on parallelizing membership and equivalence queries with applications to random self-reductions, 72-86 [Zbl 0932.68082] \textit{Melideo, Giovanna; Varricchio, Stefano}, Learning unary output two-tape automata from multiplicity and equivalence queries, 87-102 [Zbl 0937.68105] \textit{Denis, François}, PAC learning from positive statistical queries, 112-126 [Zbl 0932.68083] \textit{Satoh, Ken}, Analysis of case-based representability of Boolean functions by monotone theory, 179-190 [Zbl 0936.68089] \textit{Head, Tom; Kobayashi, Satoshi; Yokomori, Takashi}, Locality, reversibility, and beyond: Learning languages from positive data, 191-204 [Zbl 0932.68057] \textit{Case, John; Jain, Sanjay}, Synthesizing learners tolerating computable noisy data, 205-219 [Zbl 0928.03052] \textit{Sato, Masako; Mukouchi, Yasuhito; Zheng, Dao}, Characteristic sets for unions of regular pattern languages and compactness, 220-233 [Zbl 0932.68058] \textit{Sakamoto, Hiroshi}, Finding a one-variable pattern from incomplete data, 234-246 [Zbl 0932.68059] \textit{Hirowatari, Eiju; Arikawa, Setsuo}, A comparison of identification criteria for inductive inference of recursive real-valued functions, 262-275 [Zbl 0930.03047] \textit{Case, John; Jain, Sanjay; Kaufmann, Susanne; Sharma, Arun; Stephan, Frank}, Predictive learning models for concept drift, 276-290 [Zbl 0932.68084] \textit{Jain, Sanjay}, Learning with refutation, 291-305 [Zbl 0928.03053] \textit{Meyer, Léa}, Comparing the power of probabilistic learning and oracle identification under monotonicity constraints, 306-320 [Zbl 0929.03048] \textit{Stephan, Frank; Ventsov, Yuri}, Learning algebraic structures from text using semantical knowledge, 321-335 [Zbl 0928.03055] \textit{Verbeurgt, Karsten A.}, Learning sub-classes of monotone DNF on the uniform distribution, 385-399 [Zbl 0932.68085] \textit{Grieser, Gunter; Jantke, Klaus P.; Lange, Steffen}, Towards the validation of inductive learning systems, 409-423 [Zbl 0933.68065] \textit{Stein, Werner}, Consistent polynomial identification in the limit, 424-438 [Zbl 0928.03054]