A distribution-index-based discretizer for decision-making with symbolic Al approaches

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-28

  Wu, QingXiang ^a,b   Bell, David A ^a,b   Prasad, Girijesh ^a,c   Mcginnity, Thomas Martin ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Data mining; Decision support; Information theory; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT; DISCRETIZATION PROBLEMS; DISTRIBUTION-INDEX-BASED DISCRETIZERS; MULTIKNOWLEDGE APPROACHES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; DATA STRUCTURES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845679438     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2007.250582     Document Type: Article

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