Multicriteria models for learning ordinal data: A literature review

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 427, Issue , 2013, Pages 109-138

  Sousa, Ricardo ^a   Yevseyeva, Iryna ^b   Da Costa, Joaquim F Pinto ^c   Cardoso, Jaime S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF LEIRIA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

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EID: 84867536296     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29694-9_6     Document Type: Review

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