Most research on the application of machine learning to engineering problems have solved artiicial problems. While research claimed to have reached results that would improve practice, these results have never been put to work by engineers themselves in solving their problems. A diierent approach of doing research on machine learning application is presented and a system design that may result ...

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• So far we have seen supervised learning (of classification): – learning based on a training set where labelling of instances represents the target (categorisation) function – classifier implements an approximation of the target funtion – outcome: a classification decision • Unsupervised learning: – learning based on unannotated instances; – outcome: a grouping of objects (instances and groups...