Rough sets and evolutionary computation to solve the feature selection problem

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 174, Issue , 2009, Pages 235-260

  Bello, Rafael ^a   Gómez, Yudel ^a   Caballero, Yailé ^b   Nowe, Ann ^c   Falcón, Rafael ^a  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF LAS VILLAS   (Cuba)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE CAMAGÜEY   (Cuba)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Evolutionary computation; Feature selection; Meta heuristic

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149229377     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89921-1_9     Document Type: Article

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