Balanced accuracy for feature subset selection with genetic algorithms

2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE CEC 2005. Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 2506-2513

  Peterson, Michael R ^a   Raymer, Michael L ^a   Lamont, Gary B ^b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST FITNESS FUNCTION; FEATURE SELECTION ALGORITHMS; NAIVE BYES CLASSIFIER; WRAPPERS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUNCTION EVALUATION; OPTIMIZATION; SET THEORY;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 27144489689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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