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John Ross Quinlan, an Australian computer scientist and researcher in machine learning, data mining, and decision theory along with first-order logic and inductive logic programming. He runs his company RuleQuest Research, and was affiliated with the University of Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney, the University Of New South Wales and the RAND Corporation.

Based on the concept learning by Earl B. Hunt as used in decision tree learning, Ross Quinlan invented the tree induction algorithms Iterative Dichotomiser 3 (ID3) and their successors C4.5, and C5.0. and further introduced the first-order inductive learner (FOIL). One application of these algorithms is to discover classifications rules for chess endgames, as shown with KRKN and ID3 in Learning Efficient Classification Procedures and Their Application to Chess End Games.

=Selected Publications=

1968 ...

 * Ross Quinlan, Earl B. Hunt (1968). A Formal Deductive Problem-Solving System. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 15, No. 4
 * Ross Quinlan (1969). A Task-Independent Experience-Gathering Scheme for a Problem Solver. IJCAI 1969

1970 ...

 * Ross Quinlan (1975). Predicting The Length Of Solutions To Problems. IJCAI 1975, pdf
 * Ross Quinlan (1979). Discovering Rules by Induction from Large Collections of Examples. Expert Systems in the Micro-electronic Age (Introducing ID3)

1980 ...

 * Ross Quinlan (1980). An Introduction to Knowledge-Based Expert Systems. Australian Computer Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2, pdf
 * Ross Quinlan (1982). Semi-Autonomous Acquisition of Pattern-Based Knowledge. Introductory Readings in Expert Systems
 * Ross Quinlan (1983). Learning Efficient Classification Procedures and Their Application to Chess End Games. in Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach
 * Ross Quinlan (1986). Induction of Decision Trees. Machine Learning, Vol. 1, No. 1
 * Ross Quinlan (1986). The Effect of Noise on Concept Learning. Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Vol. 2

1990 ...

 * Ross Quinlan (1990). Learning Logical Definitions from Relations. Machine Learning, Vol. 5, No. 3
 * Ross Quinlan (1993). C4.5: Programs for Machine Learning. Morgan Kaufmann
 * Ross Quinlan (1996). Improved Use of Continuous Attributes in C4.5. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 4, arXiv:cs/9603103
 * Ross Quinlan (1996). Learning First-Order Definitions of Functions. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 5, arXiv:cs/9610102
 * Ron Kohavi, Ross Quinlan (1999). Decision Tree Discovery. pdf

=External Links=
 * Ross Quinlan's personal homepage
 * Ross Quinlan from Wikipedia
 * J. Ross Quinlan from Gabor Melli's Research Knowledge Base

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