Boosting of tree-based classifiers for predictive risk modeling in GIS

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

Volumn 1857 LNCS, Issue , 2000, Pages 220-229

  Furlanello, Cesare ^a   Merler, Stefano ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ACCURATE MODELING; CLASSIFICATION MODELS; DATA DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN EXPOSURES; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS; MARGIN DISTRIBUTIONS; STRONG INTERACTION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84867079959     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45014-9_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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