An adaptive weighted majority vote rule for combining multiple classifiers

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 192-195

  De Stefano, C ^a   Della Cioppa, A ^b   Marcelli, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION;

DIGIT RECOGNITION PROBLEMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; HANDWRITTEN DIGIT RECOGNITION; MAJORITY VOTE; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS;

EID: 33751584414     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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