A fuzzy clustering based algorithm for feature selection

Proceedings of 2002 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2002, Pages 1993-1998

  Sun, Hao Jun ^a   Wang, Sheng Rui ^b   Mei, Zhen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c 220 Duncan Mill Road   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Classification error rate; Feature selection; Fuzzy C means clustering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COSTS; DATA STRUCTURES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION;

CLUSTER STRUCTURE; DATA SET; FEATURE SELECTION; FUZZY CLUSTERING;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 0036931275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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