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'''Paul Everett Utgoff''', (1951 - 2008)<br/>
was an American computer scientist and professor at Department of Computer and Information Science, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst University of Massachusetts] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst,_Massachusetts Amherst]. He is recognized as a pioneer in [[Learning|machine learning]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining data mining], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_theory decision theory], where he contributed to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_decision_tree incremental decision tree] induction, multivariate decision trees <ref>[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sQ8u6h4AAAAJ Carla E. Brodley], [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1995'''). ''Multivariate Decision Trees''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_%28journal%29 Machine Learning], Vol. 19, No. 1</ref>, and problem representation. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers%E2%80%93New_Brunswick Rutgers–New Brunswick] on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_bias inductive bias] in machine learning under supervision of [[Tom Mitchell]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Amarel Saul Amarel] <ref>[[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1984'''). ''Shift of Bias for Inductive Concept Learning''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers%E2%80%93New_Brunswick Rutgers University, New Brunswick]</ref>. 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 <ref>[http://people.cs.umass.edu/~lrn/iti/index.html Machine Learning Laboratory - Incremental Decision Tree Induction]</ref>.
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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_cancer appendiceal cancer] <ref>[https://www.cs.umass.edu/news/latest-news/memoriam-paul-utgoff-1951-2008 In Memoriam: Paul Utgoff (1951 - 2008) | School of Computer Science]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/u/Utgoff:Paul_E= dblp: Paul E. Utgoff]</ref>
==1980 ...==
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[Tom Mitchell]] ('''1982'''). ''Acquisition of Appropriate Bias for Inductive Concept Learning''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/aaai/aaai82.html#UtgoffM82 AAAI 1982], [https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1982/AAAI82-099.pdf pdf]
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1984'''). ''Shift of Bias for Inductive Concept Learning''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers%E2%80%93New_Brunswick Rutgers University, New Brunswick]
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1988'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=896712 ID5: An incremental ID3]''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icml/ml1988.html#Utgoff88 ML 1988] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3_algorithm Iterative Dichotomiser 3] by [[Ross Quinlan]]</ref>
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1989'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1022699900025 Incremental Induction of Decision Trees]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_%28journal%29 Machine Learning], Vol. 4
==1990 ...==
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[Mathematician#CEBrodley|Carla E. Brodley]] ('''1990'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=101891 An Incremental Method for Finding Multivariate Splits for Decision Trees]''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icml/ml1990.html#UtgoffB90 ML 1990]
* [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/y/Yee:Richard_C= Richard C. Yee], [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/s/Saxena:Sharad Sharad Saxena], [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[Andrew Barto]] ('''1990'''). ''Explaining Temporal Differences to Create Useful Concepts for Evaluating States''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/aaai/aaai90.html#YeeSUB90 AAAI 1990], [http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1990/AAAI90-132.pdf pdf]
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Clouse:Jeffery_A= Jeffery A. Clouse] ('''1991'''). ''[http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cs_faculty_pubs/193/ Two Kinds of Training Information for Evaluation Function Learning]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst University of Massachusetts, Amherst], Proceedings of the AAAI 1991
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1994'''). ''An Improved Algorithm for Incremental Induction of Decision Trees''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icml/icml1994.html#Utgoff94 ICML 1994], [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.54.5089 CiteSeerX]
* [[Mathematician#CEBrodley|Carla E. Brodley]], [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1995'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1022607123649 Multivariate Decision Trees]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_%28journal%29 Machine Learning], Vol. 19, No. 1
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[Doina Precup]] ('''1998'''). ''Constructive Function Approximation''. Chapter in [http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9780792381969 Feature Extraction, Construction, and Selection: A Data-Mining Perspective]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolters_Kluwer Kluwer]
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[David J. Stracuzzi]] ('''1999'''). ''Approximation Via Value Unification''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icml/icml1999.html#UtgoffS99 ICML 1999], [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.5.1394&rep=rep1&type=pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[Richard P. Cochran]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45579-5_1 A Least-Certainty Heuristic for Selective Search]''. [[CG 2000]], [http://people.cs.umass.edu/~utgoff/papers/springer-lcf.pdf pdf] » [[Richard P. Cochran#LCF|LCF]]
* [[David J. Stracuzzi]], [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''2000'''). ''Feature compilation''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst], TR-00-18, [http://www.stracuzzi.info/david/manuscripts/tr-00-18.pdf pdf]
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[David J. Stracuzzi]] ('''2002'''). ''Many-Layered Learning''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Computation_%28journal%29 Neural Computation], Vol. 14, No. 10, [http://people.cs.umass.edu/~utgoff/papers/neco-stl.pdf pdf]
* [[Doina Precup]], [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''2004'''). ''Classification using Phi-Machines and Constructive Function Approximation''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_%28journal%29 Machine Learning], Vol. 55
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[David J. Stracuzzi]] ('''2004'''). ''Randomized Variable Elimination''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Machine_Learning_Research Journal of Machine Learning Research], Vol. 5, [http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume5/stracuzzi04a/stracuzzi04a.pdf pdf]
=External Links=
* [http://people.cs.umass.edu/~utgoff/ Paul Utgoff]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=70261 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Paul Utgoff]
* [http://people.cs.umass.edu/~lrn/iti/index.html Machine Learning Laboratory - Incremental Decision Tree Induction]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=164 Paul Utgoff's ICGA Tournaments]
=References=
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[[FILE:utgoff.gif|border|right|thumb|link=http://people.cs.umass.edu/~utgoff/| Paul E. Utgoff <ref>[http://people.cs.umass.edu/~utgoff/ Paul Utgoff]</ref> ]]
'''Paul Everett Utgoff''', (1951 - 2008)<br/>
was an American computer scientist and professor at Department of Computer and Information Science, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst University of Massachusetts] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amherst,_Massachusetts Amherst]. He is recognized as a pioneer in [[Learning|machine learning]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining data mining], and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_theory decision theory], where he contributed to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_decision_tree incremental decision tree] induction, multivariate decision trees <ref>[http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sQ8u6h4AAAAJ Carla E. Brodley], [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1995'''). ''Multivariate Decision Trees''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_%28journal%29 Machine Learning], Vol. 19, No. 1</ref>, and problem representation. He received his Ph.D. in 1984 from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers%E2%80%93New_Brunswick Rutgers–New Brunswick] on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inductive_bias inductive bias] in machine learning under supervision of [[Tom Mitchell]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Amarel Saul Amarel] <ref>[[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1984'''). ''Shift of Bias for Inductive Concept Learning''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers%E2%80%93New_Brunswick Rutgers University, New Brunswick]</ref>. 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 <ref>[http://people.cs.umass.edu/~lrn/iti/index.html Machine Learning Laboratory - Incremental Decision Tree Induction]</ref>.
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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_cancer appendiceal cancer] <ref>[https://www.cs.umass.edu/news/latest-news/memoriam-paul-utgoff-1951-2008 In Memoriam: Paul Utgoff (1951 - 2008) | School of Computer Science]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/u/Utgoff:Paul_E= dblp: Paul E. Utgoff]</ref>
==1980 ...==
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[Tom Mitchell]] ('''1982'''). ''Acquisition of Appropriate Bias for Inductive Concept Learning''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/aaai/aaai82.html#UtgoffM82 AAAI 1982], [https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1982/AAAI82-099.pdf pdf]
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1984'''). ''Shift of Bias for Inductive Concept Learning''. Ph.D. thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers%E2%80%93New_Brunswick Rutgers University, New Brunswick]
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1988'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=896712 ID5: An incremental ID3]''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icml/ml1988.html#Utgoff88 ML 1988] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3_algorithm Iterative Dichotomiser 3] by [[Ross Quinlan]]</ref>
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1989'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1022699900025 Incremental Induction of Decision Trees]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_%28journal%29 Machine Learning], Vol. 4
==1990 ...==
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[Mathematician#CEBrodley|Carla E. Brodley]] ('''1990'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=101891 An Incremental Method for Finding Multivariate Splits for Decision Trees]''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icml/ml1990.html#UtgoffB90 ML 1990]
* [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/y/Yee:Richard_C= Richard C. Yee], [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/s/Saxena:Sharad Sharad Saxena], [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[Andrew Barto]] ('''1990'''). ''Explaining Temporal Differences to Create Useful Concepts for Evaluating States''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/aaai/aaai90.html#YeeSUB90 AAAI 1990], [http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1990/AAAI90-132.pdf pdf]
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Clouse:Jeffery_A= Jeffery A. Clouse] ('''1991'''). ''[http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cs_faculty_pubs/193/ Two Kinds of Training Information for Evaluation Function Learning]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst University of Massachusetts, Amherst], Proceedings of the AAAI 1991
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1994'''). ''An Improved Algorithm for Incremental Induction of Decision Trees''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icml/icml1994.html#Utgoff94 ICML 1994], [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.54.5089 CiteSeerX]
* [[Mathematician#CEBrodley|Carla E. Brodley]], [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''1995'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1022607123649 Multivariate Decision Trees]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_%28journal%29 Machine Learning], Vol. 19, No. 1
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[Doina Precup]] ('''1998'''). ''Constructive Function Approximation''. Chapter in [http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9780792381969 Feature Extraction, Construction, and Selection: A Data-Mining Perspective]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolters_Kluwer Kluwer]
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[David J. Stracuzzi]] ('''1999'''). ''Approximation Via Value Unification''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icml/icml1999.html#UtgoffS99 ICML 1999], [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.5.1394&rep=rep1&type=pdf pdf]
==2000 ...==
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[Richard P. Cochran]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-45579-5_1 A Least-Certainty Heuristic for Selective Search]''. [[CG 2000]], [http://people.cs.umass.edu/~utgoff/papers/springer-lcf.pdf pdf] » [[Richard P. Cochran#LCF|LCF]]
* [[David J. Stracuzzi]], [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''2000'''). ''Feature compilation''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst University of Massachusetts Amherst], TR-00-18, [http://www.stracuzzi.info/david/manuscripts/tr-00-18.pdf pdf]
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[David J. Stracuzzi]] ('''2002'''). ''Many-Layered Learning''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Computation_%28journal%29 Neural Computation], Vol. 14, No. 10, [http://people.cs.umass.edu/~utgoff/papers/neco-stl.pdf pdf]
* [[Doina Precup]], [[Paul E. Utgoff]] ('''2004'''). ''Classification using Phi-Machines and Constructive Function Approximation''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_%28journal%29 Machine Learning], Vol. 55
* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [[David J. Stracuzzi]] ('''2004'''). ''Randomized Variable Elimination''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Machine_Learning_Research Journal of Machine Learning Research], Vol. 5, [http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume5/stracuzzi04a/stracuzzi04a.pdf pdf]
=External Links=
* [http://people.cs.umass.edu/~utgoff/ Paul Utgoff]
* [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=70261 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Paul Utgoff]
* [http://people.cs.umass.edu/~lrn/iti/index.html Machine Learning Laboratory - Incremental Decision Tree Induction]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/person.php?id=164 Paul Utgoff's ICGA Tournaments]
=References=
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