Learning multicriteria classification models from examples: Decision rules in continuous space

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 160, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 663-675

  Dombi, J ószef ^a   Zsiros, Ákos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Classification; Decision trees; Fuzzy sets; Multiple criteria analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION TABLES; DECISION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; FUZZY SETS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CLASSIFICATION; CONTINUOUS SPACE; DECISION TREES; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 4444289372     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2003.10.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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