WAIRS: Improving classification accuracy by weighting attributes in the AIRS classifier

2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3759-3765

  Seeker, Andrew ^b   Freitas, Alex A ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL IMMUNE RECOGNITION SYSTEM (AIRS); COMPETITIVE CLASSIFIERS;

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; DATA ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 79955304363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2007.4424960     Document Type: Conference Paper

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