Evaluating the stability of feature selectors that optimize feature subset cardinality

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5342 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 956-966

  Somol, Petr ^a,b   Novovičová, Jana ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION THEORY AND AUTOMATION   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Floating search; Relative weighted consistency measure; Sequential search; Stability

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; SYNTACTICS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

CARDINALITY; FEATURE SELECTION; FEATURE SELECTION METHODS; FEATURE SELECTORS; FEATURE SUBSETS; FLOATING SEARCH; PAIRWISE SIMILARITIES; RELATIVE WEIGHTED CONSISTENCY MEASURE; SEQUENTIAL SEARCH; STABILITY PROBLEMS;

STABILITY CRITERIA;

EID: 58349093749     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89689-0_99     Document Type: Conference Paper

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