A study on class-specifically discounted belief for ensemble classifiers

IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 614-619

  Johansson, Ronnie ^a   Boström, Henrik ^a   Karlsson, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Combination rules; Dempster Shafer theory; Ensemble classifiers; Evidence theory; Random forests

Indexed keywords

COMBINATION RULES; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; EVIDENCE THEORY; RANDOM FORESTS;

FORMAL LOGIC; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY;

CLASSIFIERS;

EID: 67650514819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MFI.2008.4648012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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