An analysis of data distribution in the ClassAge system: An agent-based system for classification tasks

Neurocomputing

Volumn 71, Issue 16-18, 2008, Pages 3319-3325

  Canuto, Anne M P ^a   Santana, Laura Emmanuella A ^a   Abreu, Marjory C C ^a   Xavier Jr , João Carlos ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO NORTE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Data distribution methods (or feature selection methods); Multi agent systems; Multi classifier systems; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CLASSIFIERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; ANALYSIS OF DATUMS; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; CLASSIFIER AGENTS; CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS; COMBINATION SYSTEMS; DATA DISTRIBUTION METHODS (OR FEATURE SELECTION METHODS); DATA DISTRIBUTIONS; DISTRIBUTED CLASSIFICATIONS; FEATURE DISTRIBUTIONS; MAKING PROCESSES; MULTI-CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS; PEARSON CORRELATIONS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

ACCURACY; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CLASSIFIER; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

EID: 56549125547     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2008.01.032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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