Cost-sensitive methods of constructing hierarchical classifiers

Expert Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 146-155

  Penar, Wojciech ^a   Wozniak, Michal ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

cost limit; cost sensitive classifier; decision tree

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION COSTS; BENCHMARK DATABASE; CLASSIFIER DECISIONS; COMPUTER EXPERIMENT; COST-SENSITIVE; COST-SENSITIVE LEARNING; DECISION PROBLEMS; DECISION-TREE INDUCTION; HIERARCHICAL CLASSIFIERS; MEDICAL DECISIONS; UCI MACHINE LEARNING REPOSITORY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFIERS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION TREES; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

COSTS;

EID: 77954448082     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2010.00515.x     Document Type: Article

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