An empirical study of the behavior of classifiers on imbalanced and overlapped data sets

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4756 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 397-406

  García, Vicente ^a,b   Sánchez, Jose ^b   Mollineda, Ramon ^b  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE TOLUCA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Classifiers; Imbalance; Overlapping; Performance measures

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

IMBALANCE RATIO; REAL WORLD DOMAINS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 38449101377     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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