Incremental class dictionary learning and optimization.

We have previously shown how the discovery of classes from objects can be automated, and how the resulting class organization can be efficiently optimized in the case where the optimum is a single inheritance class hierarchy. This paper extends our previous work by showing how an optimal class dictionary can be learned incrementally. The ability to expand a class organization incrementally as new object examples are presented is an important consideration in software engineering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]