Stochastic attribute selection committees

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1502, Issue , 1998, Pages 321-332

  Zheng, Zijian ^a   Webb, Geoffrey I ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DECISION TREES; ERRORS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ATTRIBUTE SELECTION; CLASSIFIER COMMITTEE LEARNING; COMMITTEE MEMBERS; DECISION TREE LEARNING; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING; REPEATED APPLICATION; TRAINING SETS;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052751840     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/bfb0095063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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