Two cooperative ant colonies for feature selection using fuzzy models

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2714-2723

  Vieira, Susana M ^a   Sousa, João M C ^a   Runkler, Thomas A ^b  

^a Instituto Superior Tecnico Institute for Mechanical Engineering   (Portugal)

^b SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Feature selection; Fuzzy modeling

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONIES; ANT-COLONY OPTIMIZATION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFICATION ERRORS; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; DATA PREPROCESSING; FEATURE SELECTION; FEATURES SELECTION; FUZZY MODELING; FUZZY MODELS; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; NUMERICAL DATA; POTENTIAL FEATURES; REAL-WORLD DATABASE; RULE BASED;

DATA PROCESSING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CLASSIFIERS;

EID: 71549117600     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.08.026     Document Type: Article

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