Krishnapuram B., Yu S., Rao B. (eds.) Cost-Sensitive Machine Learning

CRC Press, 2012, -316 p."Cost-Sensitive Machine Learning" is one of the first books to provide an overview of the current research efforts and problems in this area. It discusses real-world applications that incorporate the cost of learning into the modeling process.
The first part of the book presents the theoretical underpinnings of cost-sensitive machine learning. It describes well-established machine learning approaches for reducing data acquisition costs during training as well as approaches for reducing costs when systems must make predictions for new samples. The second part covers real-world applications that effectively trade off different types of costs. These applications not only use traditional machine learning approaches, but they also incorporate cutting-edge research that advances beyond the constraining assumptions by analyzing the application needs from first principles.
Spurring further research on several open problems, this volume highlights the often implicit assumptions in machine learning techniques that were not fully understood in the past. The book also illustrates the commercial importance of cost-sensitive machine learning through its coverage of the rapid application developments made by leading companies and academic research labs.I Theoretical Underpinnings of Cost-Sensitive Machine Learning
Algorithms for Active Learning
Semi-Supervised Learning: Some Recent Advances
Transfer Learning, Multi-Task Learning, and Cost-Sensitive Learning
Cost-Sensitive Cascades
Selective Data Acquisition for Machine Learning
II Cost-Sensitive Machine Learning Applications
Minimizing Annotation Costs in Visual Category Learning
Reliability and Redundancy: Reducing Error Cost in Medical Imaging
Cost-Sensitive Learning in Computational Advertising
Cost-Sensitive Machine Learning for Information Retrieval