The data mining advisor: Meta-learning at the service of practitioners

Proceedings - ICMLA 2005: Fourth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 113-119

  Giraud Carrier, Christophe ^a  

^a 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING ASSISTANT; META-LEARNING; MODEL SELECTION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA MINING;

EID: 33847315227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMLA.2005.65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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