This is the second volume of a large two-volume editorial
project we wish to dedicate to the memory of the late Professor
Ryszard S. Michalski who passed away in 2007. He was one of the
fathers of machine learning, an exciting and relevant, both from
the practical and theoretical points of view, area in modern
computer science and information technology. His research career
started in the mid-1960s in Poland, in the Institute of Automation,
Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. He left for the USA
in 1970, and since then had worked there at various universities,
notably, at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and
finally, until his untimely death, at George Mason University. We,
the editors, had been lucky to be able to meet and collaborate with
Ryszard for years, indeed some of us knew him when he was still in
Poland. After he started working in the USA, he was a frequent
visitor to Poland, taking part at many conferences until his death.
We had also witnessed with a great personal pleasure honors and
awards he had received over the years, notably when some years ago
he was elected Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences
among some top scientists and scholars from all over the world,
including Nobel prize winners.
Professor Michalski's research results influenced very strongly
the development of machine learning, data mining, and related
areas. Also, he inspired many established and younger scholars and
scientists all over the world.
We feel very happy that so many top scientists from all over the
world agreed to pay the last tribute to Professor Michalski by
writing papers in their areas of research. These papers will
constitute the most appropriate tribute to Professor Michalski, a
devoted scholar and researcher. Moreover, we believe that they will
inspire many newcomers and younger researchers in the area of
broadly perceived machine learning, data analysis and data
mining.
The papers included in the two volumes, Machine Learning I and
Machine Learning II, cover diverse topics, and various aspects of
the fields involved. For convenience of the potential readers, we
will now briefly summarize the contents of the particular
chapters.
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