Ensemble learning with evolutionary computation: Application to feature ranking

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

Volumn 3242, Issue , 2004, Pages 1133-1142

  Jong, Kees ^a   Marchiori, Elena ^a   Sebag, Michèle ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTERS;

DIRECT EVALUATIONS; ENSEMBLE APPROACHES; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; EVOLUTIONARY LEARNING; FEATURE RANKING; NON LINEAR; STATISTICAL MODELING;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 33747044326     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30217-9_114     Document Type: Article

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