Selective ensemble of decision trees

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

Volumn 2639, Issue , 2003, Pages 476-483

  Zhou, Zhi Hua ^a   Tang, Wei ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; FUZZY SETS; GRANULAR COMPUTING; ROUGH SET THEORY; TREES (MATHEMATICS); ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

C4.5 DECISION TREES; ENSEMBLE ALGORITHMS; MULTIPLE COMPONENTS; SELECTIVE ALGORITHM; SELECTIVE ENSEMBLES;

DATA MINING; DECISION THEORY;

DECISION TREES; ENSEMBLE ALGORITHMS; NON-SELECTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 8344279588     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-39205-x_81     Document Type: Conference Paper

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