A comparative study on the use of similarity measures in case-based reasoning to improve the classification of environmental system situations

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 809-819

  Núñez, Héctor ^a   Sànchez Marrè, Miquel ^a   Cortés, Ulises ^a   Comas, Joaquim ^b   Martínez, Montse ^b   Rodríguez Roda, Ignasi ^b   Poch, Manel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Case retrieval; Case based reasoning; Environmental situation classification; Similarity metric

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CASE-BASED REASONING (CBR); ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS (ES);

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 2642570246     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2003.03.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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