Set-based boosting for instance-level transfer

ICDM Workshops 2009 - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 422-428

  Eaton, Eric ^a   Desjardins, Marie ^b  

^a Artificial Intelligence Laboratory   (United States)

^b University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Boosting; Ensemble methods; Knowledge transfer

Indexed keywords

ADABOOST; BOOSTING ENSEMBLES; HIGHER WEIGHT; KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER; SOURCE DATA; TRAINING DATA; TRANSFER METHOD; TRANSFER PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

TARGETS;

EID: 77951200928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDMW.2009.97     Document Type: Conference Paper

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