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A Brief Philosophical Note on Information

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Towards Integrative Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction

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I will start by posing a question that arose to my attention when, some years ago, I realized the importance of Machine Learning for the future theoretical and applicative fields of Computer science.

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  1. Departement of Computer Science, Center of BioMedical Computation, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

    Vincenzo Manca

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  1. Medical University Graz, Graz, Austria

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  2. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Randy Goebel

  3. Bologna University, Bologna, Italy

    Massimo Ferri

  4. Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

    Vasile Palade

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Manca, V. (2017). A Brief Philosophical Note on Information. In: Holzinger, A., Goebel, R., Ferri, M., Palade, V. (eds) Towards Integrative Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10344. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69775-8_8

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