Misclassification cost minimizing fitness functions for genetic algorithm-based artificial neural network classifiers

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1123-1134

  Pendharkar, P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Data mining; Genetic algorithms; Knowledge discovery; Misclassification cost; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BANKRUPTCY PREDICTION; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; GENETIC-ALGORITHM-BASED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS; GROUP CLASSIFICATION; MISCLASSIFICATION COSTS; OPERATIONAL RESEARCH; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; SIMULATED DATASETS;

HEALTH;

EID: 68149150914     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602641     Document Type: Article

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