Ensembles of learning machines

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

Volumn 2486 LNCS, Issue , 2002, Pages 3-20

  Valentini, Giorgio ^a,b   Masulli, Francesco ^a,c  

^a INFM   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Combining multiple learners; Ensemble methods

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

BASE CLASSIFIERS; COMBINING MULTIPLE LEARNERS; CURRENT DIRECTION; ENSEMBLE METHODS; ENSEMBLES OF LEARNING MACHINES; MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH; REAL PROBLEMS; UNIFIED THEORY;

MACHINE LEARNING; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84865801454     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45808-5_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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