A hybrid decision support tool using ensemble of classifiers

ICEIS 2004 - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 448-456

  Kotsiantis, S B ^a   Pintelas, P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Decision support systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BENCHMARKING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA REDUCTION; FORECASTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BAYESIAN ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; TRAINING DATA; TRAINING PARAMETERS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 8444242169     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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