Pedro Larrañaga - Böcker

Industrial Applications of Machine Learning shows how machine learning can be applied to address real-world problems in the fourth industrial revolution, and provides the required knowledge and tools to empower readers to build their own solutions based on theory and practice. The book introduces the fourth industrial revolution and its current impact on organizations and society. It explores machine learning fundamentals, and includes four case studies that address a real-world problem in the manufacturing or logistics domains, and approaches machine learning solutions from an application-oriented point of view. The book should be of special interest to researchers interested in real-world industrial problems.Features Describes the opportunities, challenges, issues, and trends offered by the fourth industrial revolution Provides a user-friendly introduction to machine learning with examples of cutting-edge applications in different industrial sectors Includes four case studies addressing real-world industrial problems solved with machine learning techniques A dedicated website for the book contains the datasets of the case studies for the reader's reproduction, enabling the groundwork for future problem-solving Uses of three of the most widespread software and programming languages within the engineering and data science communities, namely R, Python, and Weka

This text is devoted to a new paradigm for evolutionary computation, named estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs). This class of algorithms generalizes genetic algorithms by replacing the crossover and mutation operators with learning and sampling from the probability distribution of the best individuals of the population at each iteration of the algorithm. Working in such a way, the relationships between the variables involved in the problem domain are explicitly and effectively captured and exploited. The book is clearly divided into three parts. Part I is dedicated to the foundations of EDAs. In this part, after introducing some probabilistic graphical models - Bayesian and Gaussian networks - a review of existing EDA approaches is presented, as well as some new methods based on more flexible probabilistic graphical models. A mathematical modelling of discrete EDAs is also presented. Part II covers several applications of EDAs in some classical optimization problems: the travelling salesman problem, the job scheduling problem, and the knapsack problem. EDAs are also applied to the optimization of some well-known combinatorial and continuous functions.Part III presents the application of EDAs to solve some problems that arise in the machine learning field: feature subset selection, feature weighting in K-NN classifiers, rule induction, partial abductive inference in Bayesian networks, partitional clustering, and the search for optimal weights in artificial neural networks.

Industrial Applications of Machine Learning shows how machine learning can be applied to address real-world problems in the fourth industrial revolution, and provides the required knowledge and tools to empower readers to build their own solutions based on theory and practice. The book introduces the fourth industrial revolution and its current impact on organizations and society. It explores machine learning fundamentals, and includes four case studies that address a real-world problem in the manufacturing or logistics domains, and approaches machine learning solutions from an application-oriented point of view. The book should be of special interest to researchers interested in real-world industrial problems.Features Describes the opportunities, challenges, issues, and trends offered by the fourth industrial revolution Provides a user-friendly introduction to machine learning with examples of cutting-edge applications in different industrial sectors Includes four case studies addressing real-world industrial problems solved with machine learning techniques A dedicated website for the book contains the datasets of the case studies for the reader's reproduction, enabling the groundwork for future problem-solving Uses of three of the most widespread software and programming languages within the engineering and data science communities, namely R, Python, and Weka

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: A New Tool for Evolutionary Computation is devoted to a new paradigm for evolutionary computation, named estimation of distribution algorithms (EDAs). This new class of algorithms generalizes genetic algorithms by replacing the crossover and mutation operators with learning and sampling from the probability distribution of the best individuals of the population at each iteration of the algorithm. Working in such a way, the relationships between the variables involved in the problem domain are explicitly and effectively captured and exploited. This text constitutes the first compilation and review of the techniques and applications of this new tool for performing evolutionary computation. Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: A New Tool for Evolutionary Computation is clearly divided into three parts. Part I is dedicated to the foundations of EDAs. In this part, after introducing some probabilistic graphical models - Bayesian and Gaussian networks - a review of existing EDA approaches is presented, as well as some new methods based on more flexible probabilistic graphical models. A mathematical modeling of discrete EDAs is also presented. Part II covers several applications of EDAs in some classical optimization problems: the travelling salesman problem, the job scheduling problem, and the knapsack problem. EDAs are also applied to the optimization of some well-known combinatorial and continuous functions. Part III presents the application of EDAs to solve some problems that arise in the machine learning field: feature subset selection, feature weighting in K-NN classifiers, rule induction, partial abductive inference in Bayesian networks, partitional clustering, and the search for optimal weights in artificial neural networks. Estimation of Distribution Algorithms: A New Tool for Evolutionary Computation is a useful and interesting tool for researchers working in the field of evolutionary computation and for engineers who face real-world optimization problems. This book may also be used by graduate students and researchers in computer science. `... I urge those who are interested in EDAs to study this well-crafted book today.' David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, XAI-Healthcare 2023, and the First International Workshop on Process Mining Applications for Healthcare, PM4H 2023, which took place in conjunction with AIME 2023 in Portoroz, Slovenia, on June 15, 2023.The 7 full papers included from XAI-Healthcare were carefully reviewed and selected from 11 submissions. They focus on all aspects of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) in the medical and healthcare field. For PM4H 5 papers have been accepted from 17 submissions. They deal with data-driven process analysis techniques in healthcare.

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16013 to LNAI 16022, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2025, held in Porto, Portugal, September 15–19, 2025.The 300 full papers presented here, together with 15 demo papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 1253 submissions. The papers presented in these proceedings are from the following three conference tracks:The Research Track in Volume LNAI 16013-16020 refers about Anomaly & Outlier Detection, Bias & Fairness, Causality, Clustering, Data Challenges, Diffusion Models, Ensemble Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Graphs & Networks, Healthcare & Bioinformatics, Images & Computer Vision, Interpretability & Explainability, Large Language Models, Learning Theory, Multimodal Data, Neuro Symbolic Approaches, Optimization, Privacy & Security, Recommender Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Representation Learning, Resource Efficiency, Robustness & Uncertainty, Sequence Models, Streaming & Spatiotemporal Data, Text & Natural Language Processing, Time Series, and Transfer & Multitask Learning. The Applied Data Science Track in Volume LNAI 16020-16022 refers about Agriculture, Food and Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering and Technology, Finance, Economy, Management or Marketing, Health, Biology, Bioinformatics or Chemistry, Industry (4.0, 5.0, Manufacturing, ...), Smart Cities, Transportation and Utilities (e.g., Energy), Sports, and Web and Social NetworksThe Demo Track in LNAI 16022 showcased practical applications and prototypes, accepting 15 papers from a total of 30 submissions. These proceedings cover the papers accepted in the research and applied data science tracks.

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16013 to LNAI 16022, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2025, held in Porto, Portugal, September 15–19, 2025.The 300 full papers presented here, together with 15 demo papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 1253 submissions. The papers presented in these proceedings are from the following three conference tracks:The Research Track in Volume LNAI 16013-16020 refers about Anomaly & Outlier Detection, Bias & Fairness, Causality, Clustering, Data Challenges, Diffusion Models, Ensemble Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Graphs & Networks, Healthcare & Bioinformatics, Images & Computer Vision, Interpretability & Explainability, Large Language Models, Learning Theory, Multimodal Data, Neuro Symbolic Approaches, Optimization, Privacy & Security, Recommender Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Representation Learning, Resource Efficiency, Robustness & Uncertainty, Sequence Models, Streaming & Spatiotemporal Data, Text & Natural Language Processing, Time Series, and Transfer & Multitask Learning. The Applied Data Science Track in Volume LNAI 16020-16022 refers about Agriculture, Food and Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering and Technology, Finance, Economy, Management or Marketing, Health, Biology, Bioinformatics or Chemistry, Industry (4.0, 5.0, Manufacturing, ...), Smart Cities, Transportation and Utilities (e.g., Energy), Sports, and Web and Social NetworksThe Demo Track in LNAI 16022 showcased practical applications and prototypes, accepting 15 papers from a total of 30 submissions. These proceedings cover the papers accepted in the research and applied data science tracks.

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16013 to LNAI 16022, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2025, held in Porto, Portugal, September 15–19, 2025.The 300 full papers presented here, together with 15 demo papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 1253 submissions. The papers presented in these proceedings are from the following three conference tracks:The Research Track in Volume LNAI 16013-16020 refers about Anomaly & Outlier Detection, Bias & Fairness, Causality, Clustering, Data Challenges, Diffusion Models, Ensemble Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Graphs & Networks, Healthcare & Bioinformatics, Images & Computer Vision, Interpretability & Explainability, Large Language Models, Learning Theory, Multimodal Data, Neuro Symbolic Approaches, Optimization, Privacy & Security, Recommender Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Representation Learning, Resource Efficiency, Robustness & Uncertainty, Sequence Models, Streaming & Spatiotemporal Data, Text & Natural Language Processing, Time Series, and Transfer & Multitask Learning. The Applied Data Science Track in Volume LNAI 16020-16022 refers about Agriculture, Food and Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering and Technology, Finance, Economy, Management or Marketing, Health, Biology, Bioinformatics or Chemistry, Industry (4.0, 5.0, Manufacturing, ...), Smart Cities, Transportation and Utilities (e.g., Energy), Sports, and Web and Social NetworksThe Demo Track in LNAI 16022 showcased practical applications and prototypes, accepting 15 papers from a total of 30 submissions. These proceedings cover the papers accepted in the research and applied data science tracks.

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16013 to LNAI 16022, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2025, held in Porto, Portugal, September 15–19, 2025.The 300 full papers presented here, together with 15 demo papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 1253 submissions. The papers presented in these proceedings are from the following three conference tracks:The Research Track in Volume LNAI 16013-16020 refers about Anomaly & Outlier Detection, Bias & Fairness, Causality, Clustering, Data Challenges, Diffusion Models, Ensemble Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Graphs & Networks, Healthcare & Bioinformatics, Images & Computer Vision, Interpretability & Explainability, Large Language Models, Learning Theory, Multimodal Data, Neuro Symbolic Approaches, Optimization, Privacy & Security, Recommender Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Representation Learning, Resource Efficiency, Robustness & Uncertainty, Sequence Models, Streaming & Spatiotemporal Data, Text & Natural Language Processing, Time Series, and Transfer & Multitask Learning. The Applied Data Science Track in Volume LNAI 16020-16022 refers about Agriculture, Food and Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering and Technology, Finance, Economy, Management or Marketing, Health, Biology, Bioinformatics or Chemistry, Industry (4.0, 5.0, Manufacturing, ...), Smart Cities, Transportation and Utilities (e.g., Energy), Sports, and Web and Social NetworksThe Demo Track in LNAI 16022 showcased practical applications and prototypes, accepting 15 papers from a total of 30 submissions. These proceedings cover the papers accepted in the research and applied data science tracks.

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16013 to LNAI 16022, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2025, held in Porto, Portugal, September 15–19, 2025.The 300 full papers presented here, together with 15 demo papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 1253 submissions. The papers presented in these proceedings are from the following three conference tracks:The Research Track in Volume LNAI 16013-16020 refers about Anomaly & Outlier Detection, Bias & Fairness, Causality, Clustering, Data Challenges, Diffusion Models, Ensemble Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Graphs & Networks, Healthcare & Bioinformatics, Images & Computer Vision, Interpretability & Explainability, Large Language Models, Learning Theory, Multimodal Data, Neuro Symbolic Approaches, Optimization, Privacy & Security, Recommender Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Representation Learning, Resource Efficiency, Robustness & Uncertainty, Sequence Models, Streaming & Spatiotemporal Data, Text & Natural Language Processing, Time Series, and Transfer & Multitask Learning. The Applied Data Science Track in Volume LNAI 16020-16022 refers about Agriculture, Food and Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering and Technology, Finance, Economy, Management or Marketing, Health, Biology, Bioinformatics or Chemistry, Industry (4.0, 5.0, Manufacturing, ...), Smart Cities, Transportation and Utilities (e.g., Energy), Sports, and Web and Social NetworksThe Demo Track in LNAI 16022 showcased practical applications and prototypes, accepting 15 papers from a total of 30 submissions. These proceedings cover the papers accepted in the research and applied data science tracks.

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16013 to LNAI 16022, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2025, held in Porto, Portugal, September 15–19, 2025.The 300 full papers presented here, together with 15 demo papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 1253 submissions. The papers presented in these proceedings are from the following three conference tracks:The Research Track in Volume LNAI 16013-16020 refers about Anomaly & Outlier Detection, Bias & Fairness, Causality, Clustering, Data Challenges, Diffusion Models, Ensemble Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Graphs & Networks, Healthcare & Bioinformatics, Images & Computer Vision, Interpretability & Explainability, Large Language Models, Learning Theory, Multimodal Data, Neuro Symbolic Approaches, Optimization, Privacy & Security, Recommender Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Representation Learning, Resource Efficiency, Robustness & Uncertainty, Sequence Models, Streaming & Spatiotemporal Data, Text & Natural Language Processing, Time Series, and Transfer & Multitask Learning. The Applied Data Science Track in Volume LNAI 16020-16022 refers about Agriculture, Food and Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering and Technology, Finance, Economy, Management or Marketing, Health, Biology, Bioinformatics or Chemistry, Industry (4.0, 5.0, Manufacturing, ...), Smart Cities, Transportation and Utilities (e.g., Energy), Sports, and Web and Social NetworksThe Demo Track in LNAI 16022 showcased practical applications and prototypes, accepting 15 papers from a total of 30 submissions. These proceedings cover the papers accepted in the research and applied data science tracks.

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16013 to LNAI 16022, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2025, held in Porto, Portugal, September 15–19, 2025.The 300 full papers presented here, together with 15 demo papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 1253 submissions. The papers presented in these proceedings are from the following three conference tracks:The Research Track in Volume LNAI 16013-16020 refers about Anomaly & Outlier Detection, Bias & Fairness, Causality, Clustering, Data Challenges, Diffusion Models, Ensemble Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Graphs & Networks, Healthcare & Bioinformatics, Images & Computer Vision, Interpretability & Explainability, Large Language Models, Learning Theory, Multimodal Data, Neuro Symbolic Approaches, Optimization, Privacy & Security, Recommender Systems, Reinforcement Learning, Representation Learning, Resource Efficiency, Robustness & Uncertainty, Sequence Models, Streaming & Spatiotemporal Data, Text & Natural Language Processing, Time Series, and Transfer & Multitask Learning. The Applied Data Science Track in Volume LNAI 16020-16022 refers about Agriculture, Food and Earth Sciences, Education, Engineering and Technology, Finance, Economy, Management or Marketing, Health, Biology, Bioinformatics or Chemistry, Industry (4.0, 5.0, Manufacturing, ...), Smart Cities, Transportation and Utilities (e.g., Energy), Sports, and Web and Social NetworksThe Demo Track in LNAI 16022 showcased practical applications and prototypes, accepting 15 papers from a total of 30 submissions. These proceedings cover the papers accepted in the research and applied data science tracks.

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) are a set of algorithms in the Evolutionary Computation (EC) field characterized by the use of explicit probability distributions in optimization. Contrarily to other EC techniques such as the broadly known Genetic Algorithms (GAs) in EDAs, the crossover and mutation operators are substituted by the sampling of a distribution previously learnt from the selected individuals. EDAs have experienced a high development that has transformed them into an established discipline within the EC field.This book attracts the interest of new researchers in the EC field as well as in other optimization disciplines, and that it becomes a reference for all of us working on this topic. The twelve chapters of this book can be divided into those that endeavor to set a sound theoretical basis for EDAs, those that broaden the methodology of EDAs and finally those that have an applied objective.

Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) are a set of algorithms in the Evolutionary Computation (EC) field characterized by the use of explicit probability distributions in optimization. Contrarily to other EC techniques such as the broadly known Genetic Algorithms (GAs) in EDAs, the crossover and mutation operators are substituted by the sampling of a distribution previously learnt from the selected individuals. EDAs have experienced a high development that has transformed them into an established discipline within the EC field. This book attracts the interest of new researchers in the EC field as well as in other optimization disciplines, and that it becomes a reference for all of us working on this topic. The twelve chapters of this book can be divided into those that endeavor to set a sound theoretical basis for EDAs, those that broaden the methodology of EDAs and finally those that have an applied objective.