Ensemble learning for free with evolutionary algorithms?

Proceedings of GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1782-1789

  Gagné, Christian ^a   Sebag, Michèle ^b   Schoenauer, Marc ^b   Tomassini, Marco ^c  

^a Informatique WGZ inc   (Canada)

^b UFR 919 Laboratoire d'Informatique Pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ensemble learning; Evolutionary computation

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ENSEMBLE LEARNING; EVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE LEARNING (EEL); FITNESS FUNCTIONS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS;

EID: 34548090779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1276958.1277317     Document Type: Conference Paper

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