An integrated approach for different attribute types in nearest neighbour classification

Knowledge Engineering Review

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 245-252

  Liu, W Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE METRIC; NEAREST NEIGHBOUR ALGORITHMS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 0030234210     PISSN: 02698889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269888900007906     Document Type: Article

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