Preface. Part I: Background and Foundation. 1. Less is More; Huan Liu, H. Motoda. 2. Feature Weighting for Lazy Learning Algorithms; D.W. Aha. 3. The Wrapper Approach; R. Kohavi, G.H. John. 4. Data-driven Constructive Induction: Methodology and Applications; E. Bloedorn, R.S. Michalski. Part II: Subset Selection. 5. Selecting Features by Vertical Compactness of Data; Ke Wang, S. Sundaresh. 6. Relevance Approach to Feature Subset Selection; Hui Wang, et al. 7. Novel Methods for Feature Subset Selection with Respect to Problem Knowledge; P. Pudil, J. Novovicová. 8. Feature Subset Selection Using a Genetic Algorithm; Jihoon Yang, V. Honavar. 9. A Relevancy Filter for Constructive Induction; N. Lavrac, et al. Part III: Feature Extraction. 10. Lexical Contextual Relations for the Unsupervised Discovery of Texts Features; P. Perrin, F. Petry. 11. Integrated Feature Extraction Using Adaptive Wavelets; Y. Mallet, et al. 12. Feature Extraction via Neural Networks; R. Setiono, Huan Liu. 13. Using Lattice-based Framework as a Tool for Feature Extraction; E. Mephu Nguifo, P. Njiwoua. 14. Constructive Function Approximation; P.E. Utgoff, D. Precup. Part IV: Feature Construction. 15. A Comparison of Constructing Different Types of New Feature for Decision Tree Learning; Zijian Zheng. 16. Constructive Induction: Covering Attribute Spectrum; Yuh-Jyh Hu. 17. Feature Construction Using Fragmentary Knowledge; S. Donoho, L. Rendell.18. Constructive Induction on Continuous Spaces; J. Gama, P. Brazdil. Part V: Combined Approaches. 19. Evolutionary Feature Space Transformation; H. Vafaie, K. De Jong. 20. Feature Transformation by Function Decomposition; B. Zupan, et al. 21. Constructive Induction of Cartesian Product Attributes; M.J. Pazzani. Part VI: Applications of Feature Transformation. 22. Towards Automatic Fractal Feature Extraction for Image Recognition; M. Baldoni, et al. 23. Feature Transformation Strategies for a Robot Learning Problem; L.S. Lopes, L.M. Camarinha-Matos. 24. Interactive Genetic Algorithm Based Feature Selection and Its Application to Marketing Data Analysis; T. Terano, Y. Ishino. Index.