Selective voting - Getting more for less in sensor fusion

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 329-350

  Rokach, Lior ^a   Maimon, Oded ^b   Arbel, Reuven ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Decision trees; Ensemble methods; Information fusion; Machine learning; Performance measures; Selective voting

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; ENSEMBLE METHODS; INFORMATION FUSION; PERFORMANCE MEASURES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 33646887241     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001406004739     Document Type: Article

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