A divide-and-conquer method for multi-net classifiers

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 32-40

  Frosyniotis, Dimitrios ^a   Stafylopatis, Andreas ^a   Likas, Aristidis ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Classifier combination; Classifier fusion; Clustering; Divide and conquer; Multiple classifier systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037795309     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-002-0174-6     Document Type: Article

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