An A-Team approach to learning classifiers from distributed data sources

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 245-263

  Czarnowski, Ireneusz ^a   Jȩdrzejowicz, Piotr ^a   Wierzbowska, Izabela ^a  

^a GDYNIA MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

A Team; Data reduction; Distributed data; Distributed data mining; JABAT; Learning classifiers; Prototype selection

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING;

A-TEAM; DISTRIBUTED DATA; DISTRIBUTED DATA MINING; JABAT; LEARNING CLASSIFIERS; PROTOTYPE SELECTION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 77954482096     PISSN: 17515858     EISSN: 17515866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2010.034082     Document Type: Article

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