Model induction from relational data requires aggregation of values ofattributes of related entities. This paper makes three contributions tothe study of relational learning.(1) It presents a hierarchy ofrelational concepts of increasing complexity, using relational schemacharacteristics such as...

Voting features based classifiers, shortly VFC, have been shown to perform well on most real-world data sets. They are robust to irrelevant features and missing feature values. In this paper, we introduce an extension to VFC, called voting features based classifier with feature construction,...

This paper features an analysis of major currency exchange rate movements in relation to the US dollar, as constituted in US dollar terms. Euro, British pound, Chinese yuan, and Japanese yen are modelled using a variety of non-linear models, including smooth transition regression models,...