Evaluating score normalization methods in data fusion

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

Volumn 4182 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 642-648

  Wu, Sengli ^a   Crestani, Fabio ^b   Bi, Yaxin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CURVE FITTING;

DATA FUSION; DIFFERENT COMPONENT SYSTEMS; SCORE NORMALIZATION METHODS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 33751356367     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11880592_57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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