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The recent remarkable development of microsystems dates back to 1983 when
Richard P. Feynman of California University delivered a speech to a large
audience of scientists and engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He presented
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The explosive growth of application areas such as electronic commerce, enterprise
resource planning and mobile computing has profoundly and irreversibly
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A learning method is an algorithm (usually implemented in software) that esti-
mates an unknown mapping (dependency) between a system’s inputs and outputs
from the available data, namely from known (input, output) samples. Once such
a dependency has been accurately estimated, it can be used for prediction of future
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