Use of Dempster-Shafer theory to combine classifiers which use different class boundaries

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-46

  Ahmadzadeh, Mohammad Reza ^a,b   Petrou, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Classifier combination; Dempster Shafer theory; Expert rules; Fuzzy logic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038809899     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-002-0176-4     Document Type: Article

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