XCS for personalizing desktop interfaces

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 547-560

  Shankar, Anil ^a   Louis, Sushil J ^a  

^a Reno   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision trees; evolutionary computation; genetics based machine learning; learning classifier systems; user context; XCS

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; DESKTOP APPLICATIONS; DESKTOP INTERFACES; EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATIONS; GENETICS BASED MACHINE LEARNING; LEARNING CLASSIFIER SYSTEM; MEDIA PLAYERS; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; REAL-WORLD; USER CONTEXT; USER STUDY;

CHROMOSOMES; CLASSIFIERS; FUZZY CONTROL; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77955430088     PISSN: 1089778X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEVC.2009.2021466     Document Type: Article

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