An expected utility approach to active feature-value acquisition

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 745-748

  Melville, Prem ^a   Saar Tsechansky, Maytal ^b   Provost, Foster ^c   Mooney, Raymond ^a  

^a University of Texas at Austin

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; COST REDUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

FEATURE-VALUE ACQUISITION; MODEL ACCURACY;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 34548588846     PISSN: 15504786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2005.23     Document Type: Conference Paper

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