Learning from distributed data is becoming in
our times a necessity, but it is also a complex and
challenging task. Approaches developed so far
have not dealt with the uncertainty, imprecision
and vagueness involved in distributed learning.
Meta-Learning, a successful approach for distributed
data mining, is in this paper extended to
handle the imprecision and uncertainty of the local
models and the vagueness that characterizes
the meta-learning process. The proposed approach,
Fuzzy Meta-Learning uses a fuzzy inductive
algorithm to meta-learn a global model from
the degrees of certainty of the output of local
classifiers. This way more accurate models of
collective knowledge can be acquired from data
with application both to inherently distributed databases
and parts of a very large database. Preliminary
results are promising and encourage further
research towards this direction.