A hybrid approach for efficient ensembles

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 480-487

  Zhu, Dan ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Data envelopment analysis; Ensembles; Stacking

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION TASKS; DATA MINING MODELS; ENSEMBLE OF CLASSIFIERS; HYBRID APPROACH; INDIVIDUAL CLASSIFIERS; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; OPTIMAL ENSEMBLE;

CLASSIFIERS; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; DATA HANDLING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 72249084689     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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