Simplifying decision trees learned by genetic programming

2006 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 2142-2148

  Garcia Almanza, Alma Lilia ^a   Tsang, Edward P K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LOGIC PROGRAMMING;

FINANCIAL STOCK MARKETS; POST-PROCESS DECISION TREES;

DECISION TREES;

EID: 34547320347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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