Multiple instance learning for classifying students in learning management systems

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 15020-15031

  Zafra, Amelia ^a   Romero, Cristóbal ^a   Ventura, Sebastián ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Educational data mining; Multiple instance learning; Traditional supervised learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; EDUCATIONAL DATA MINING; LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; MISSING VALUES; MULTIPLE INSTANCE LEARNING; MULTIPLE INSTANCES; STUDENT'S PERFORMANCE; TRADITIONAL SUPERVISED LEARNING;

STUDENTS; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

TEACHING;

EID: 80052021793     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.05.044     Document Type: Article

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