An empirical analysis of linear adaptation techniques for case-based prediction

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

Volumn 2689, Issue , 2003, Pages 231-245

  Kirsopp, Colin ^a   Mendes, Emilia ^b   Premraj, Rahul ^a   Shepperd, Martin ^a  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR SEARCH; STATISTICS; ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; LINEAR SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

ADAPTATION ALGORITHMS; ADAPTATION TECHNIQUES; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; FEATURE SUBSET; LINEAR SCALING; OUTLIER PROBLEM; SOFTWARE PROJECT;

CASE BASED REASONING; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CASE-BASED PREDICTION; DATA SETS; LINEAR ADAPTATION; PROJECT PREDICTION;

EID: 7044224332     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45006-8_20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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