Fuzzy classification systems based on fuzzy information gain measures

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 3 PART 1, 2009, Pages 4517-4522

  Chen, Shyi Ming ^a,b   Shie, Jen Da ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b JINWEN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Classification problems; Feature weights; Fuzzy entropy; Fuzzy information gain; Membership grades

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ENTROPY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; SET THEORY;

AVERAGE CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY RATES; CONSTRUCTING MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; FEATURE WEIGHT; FUZZY CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; FUZZY ENTROPY; FUZZY INFORMATION; MEMBERSHIP GRADE; NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 58349110117     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2008.05.020     Document Type: Article

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