An approach to aggregating ensembles of lazy learners that supports explanation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2416, Issue , 2002, Pages 436-447

  Zenobi, Gabriele ^a   Cunningham, Pádraig ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; AGGREGATED OUTPUT; CASEBASED REASONINGS (CBR); CLASSIFICATION TASKS; ENSEMBLE MEMBERS; INTERPRETABILITY; K-NEAREST NEIGHBOURS; TRANSFORMATION PROCESS;

CASE BASED REASONING;

EID: 26444594807     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-46119-1_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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