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Abstract. This paper presents a novel, generic, scalable, autonomous, and flexible supervised learning algorithm for the classification of multivariate and variable length time series. The essential ingredients of the algorithm are randomization, segmentation of time-series, decision tree ensemble based learning of subseries classifiers, combination of subseries classification by voting, and cross-validation based temporal resolution adaptation. Experiments are carried out with this method on 10 synthetic and real-world datasets. They highlight the good behavior of the algorithm on a large diversity of problems. Our results are also highly competitive with existing approaches from the literature. 1 Learning to classify time-series Time-series classification is an important problem from the viewpoint of its multitudinous applications. Specific applications concern the non intrusive monitoring and diagnosis of processes and biological systems, for example to decide whether the system is in a healthy operating condition on the basis of measurements

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