Utilizing hierarchical feature domain values for prediction

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 540-553

  Han, Yiqiu ^a   Lam, Wai ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Classification and prediction; Hierarchical domain value; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA STRUCTURES; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

HIERARCHICAL FEATURE DOMAIN VALUES; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 34147132802     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2006.06.018     Document Type: Article

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