A feature-based serial approach to classifier combination

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 385-398

  Last, Mark ^a   Bunke, Horst ^b   Kandel, Abraham ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c University of South Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Classifier combination; Decision tree classifier; Feature selection; Info Fuzzy Network (IFN); Nearest neighbour classifier; Sequential combination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036026244     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100440200034     Document Type: Article

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