Creating ensembles of classifiers via fuzzy clustering and deflection

Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Volumn 161, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1790-1802

  Zhang, Huaxiang ^a   Lu, Jing ^b  

^a SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong Finance Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Deflection; Ensemble classifier; Fuzzy clustering; Information entropy

Indexed keywords

ADABOOST; BASE CLASSIFIERS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; COMPONENT CLASSIFIERS; DATA SETS; DEFLECTION; DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIER; ENSEMBLE CLASSIFIERS; ENSEMBLES OF CLASSIFIERS; GENERALIZATION CAPABILITY; HOT RESEARCH TOPICS; TRAINING DATA; TRAINING DATA SETS;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CLASSIFIERS;

EID: 77950628261     PISSN: 01650114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fss.2009.11.013     Document Type: Article

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