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Inductive Modelling World Wide the State of the Art Miroslav Šnorek, Pavel Kordík Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Karlovo nam. 13, 121 35 Praha 2, Czech Rep. snorek@fel.cvut.cz, kordikp@fel.cvut.cz Abstract. In this contribution, we summarize the state of the art of the inductive modelling world wide. Recently, there is a trend to utilize evolutionary algorithms for optimization of inductive models. Also some new approaches in feature selection using inductive modelling, model validation, ensembles of inductive models, etc. are to be described. Keywords Inductive modeling, state of the art. 1 Introduction The capability of induction is fundamental for human thinking. It is the next human ability that can be utilized in soft-computing, besides that of learning and generalization. The induction means gathering small pieces of information, combining it, using already collected information in the higher abstraction level to get complex overview of the studied object or process. Inductive modeling methods utilize the process of induction to construct models of studied systems. The construction process is highly efficient, it starts from the minimal form and the model grows according to system complexity. It also works well for systems with many inputs. Where the traditional modeling methods fail, due to the curse of dimensionality phenomenon, the inductive methods are capable to build reliable models. The problem is decomposed into small subtasks. At first, the information from most important inputs is analyzed in the subspace of low dimensionality, later the abstracted information is combined to get a global knowledge of the system variables relationship. There are several me