A neural network approach to ordinal regression

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1279-1284

  Cheng, Jianlin ^a   Wang, Zheng ^a   Pollastri, Gianluca ^b  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SERVICES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VEGETATION; WEBSITES;

BATCH MODES; BENCHMARK DATASETS; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; COMPLEMENTARY TOOLS; DATA MINING TASKS; DATA SETS; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORK CLASSIFICATIONS; NEURAL NETWORK SOFTWARES; ORDINAL REGRESSIONS; PERCEPTRON; SUPPORT VECTORS; WEB PAGE RANKINGS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 56349133747     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2008.4633963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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