Learning Classifiers from Distributed Data Sources Doina Caragea* Department of Computing and Information Sciences Kansas State University 234 Nichols Hall Manhattan, KS 66506 USA voice: +1 785-532-7908 fax: +1 785-532-7353 email: dcaragea@ksu.edu Vasant Honavar Department of Computer Science Iowa State University 226 Atanasoff Hall Ames, IA 50011 USA voice: +1 515-294-0258 email: honavar@cs.iastate.edu (* Corresponding author)