Two step Swarm intelligence to solve the feature selection problem

Journal of Universal Computer Science

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2582-2596

  Gómez, Yudel ^a   Bello, Rafael ^a   Puris, Amilkar ^a   García, María M ^a   Nowe, Ann ^b  

^a CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF LAS VILLAS   (Cuba)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Feature selection problem; Particle swarm optimization; Rough set theory; Swarm intelligence; Two Step swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849116751     PISSN: 0958695X     EISSN: 09486968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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