Paul+E.+Utgoff

was an American computer scientist and professor at Department of Computer and Information Science, [|University of Massachusetts] [|Amherst]. He is recognized as a pioneer in machine learning, [|data mining], and [|decision theory], where he contributed to [|incremental decision tree] induction, multivariate decision trees, and problem representation. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 from [|Rutgers–New Brunswick] on [|inductive bias] in machine learning under supervision of Tom Mitchell and [|Saul Amarel]. In 1993, he designed the //Incremental Tree Inducer// (**ITI**) program and a new algorithm called //Direct-Metric Tree Inducer// (**DMTI**) made feasible by the ability to restructure trees efficiently.
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 * [[image:utgoff.gif link="http://people.cs.umass.edu/~utgoff/"]] ||~ || **Paul Everett Utgoff**, (1951 - 2008)

Paul E. Utgoff died on October 11, 2008 at the age of 57 due to complications from surgery that he elected to undergo as part of his battle against [|appendiceal cancer]. || toc =Selected Publications=
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1980 ...

 * Paul E. Utgoff, Tom Mitchell (**1982**). //Acquisition of Appropriate Bias for Inductive Concept Learning//. [|AAAI 1982], [|pdf]
 * Paul E. Utgoff (**1984**). //Shift of Bias for Inductive Concept Learning//. Ph.D. thesis, [|Rutgers University, New Brunswick]
 * Paul E. Utgoff (**1988**). //[|ID5: An incremental ID3]//. [|ML 1988]
 * Paul E. Utgoff (**1989**). //[|Incremental Induction of Decision Trees]//. [|Machine Learning], Vol. 4

1990 ...

 * Paul E. Utgoff, Carla E. Brodley (**1990**). //[|An Incremental Method for Finding Multivariate Splits for Decision Trees]//. [|ML 1990]
 * [|Richard C. Yee], [|Sharad Saxena], Paul E. Utgoff, Andrew Barto (**1990**). //Explaining Temporal Differences to Create Useful Concepts for Evaluating States//. [|AAAI 1990], [|pdf]
 * Paul E. Utgoff, [|Jeffery A. Clouse] (**1991**). //[|Two Kinds of Training Information for Evaluation Function Learning]//. [|University of Massachusetts, Amherst], Proceedings of the AAAI 1991
 * Paul E. Utgoff (**1994**). //An Improved Algorithm for Incremental Induction of Decision Trees//. [|ICML 1994], [|CiteSeerX]
 * Carla E. Brodley, Paul E. Utgoff (**1995**). //[|Multivariate Decision Trees]//. [|Machine Learning], Vol. 19, No. 1
 * Paul E. Utgoff, Doina Precup (**1998**). //Constructive Function Approximation//. Chapter in [|Feature Extraction, Construction, and Selection: A Data-Mining Perspective]. [|Kluwer]
 * Paul E. Utgoff, David J. Stracuzzi (**1999**). //Approximation Via Value Unification//. [|ICML 1999], [|pdf]

2000 ...

 * Paul E. Utgoff, Richard P. Cochran (**2000**). //[|A Least-Certainty Heuristic for Selective Search]//. CG 2000, [|pdf]
 * David J. Stracuzzi, Paul E. Utgoff (**2000**). //Feature compilation//. [|University of Massachusetts Amherst], TR-00-18, [|pdf]
 * Paul E. Utgoff, David J. Stracuzzi (**2002**). //Many-Layered Learning//. [|Neural Computation], Vol. 14, No. 10, [|pdf]
 * Doina Precup, Paul E. Utgoff (**2004**). //Classification using Phi-Machines and Constructive Function Approximation//. [|Machine Learning], Vol. 55
 * Paul E. Utgoff, David J. Stracuzzi (**2004**). //Randomized Variable Elimination//. [|Journal of Machine Learning Research], Vol. 5, [|pdf]

=External Links=
 * [|Paul Utgoff]
 * [|In Memoriam: Paul Utgoff (1951 - 2008) | School of Computer Science]
 * [|The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Paul Utgoff]
 * [|Machine Learning Laboratory - Incremental Decision Tree Induction]
 * [|Paul Utgoff's ICGA Tournaments]

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