A strategy for attributes selection in cost-sensitive decision trees induction

Proceedings - 8th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology Workshops, CIT Workshops 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 8-13

  Zhang, Shichao ^a,b,c   Liu, Li ^b   Zhu, Xiaofeng ^c   Zhang, Chen ^c  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c GUANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; RANDOM FORESTS;

ATTRIBUTE SELECTION; CLASSIFICATION ABILITY; COST-SENSITIVE LEARNING; DECISION TREE LEARNING; INDUCTIVE INFERENCE; INDUCTIVE LEARNING; INFORMATION GAIN METHOD; MISCLASSIFICATION COSTS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 52049113705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIT.2008.Workshops.51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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