A classifier ensemble approach to the TV-viewer profile adaptation problem

International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 313-326

  Christou, Ioannis T ^a   Gekas, George ^b   Kyrikou, Anna ^c  

^a ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b Intracom SA ^*  (Germany)

^c Intracom Holdings SA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adaptive systems; Autonomous systems; Classifier ensembles; Continuous learning; Information search and retrieval; Pattern recognition; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIGITAL TELEVISION; MACHINE LEARNING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; SET-TOP BOXES; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES; COLLABORATIVE FILTERING TECHNIQUES; CONTINUOUS LEARNING; ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE; INFORMATION SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84868109239     PISSN: 18688071     EISSN: 1868808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13042-011-0066-4     Document Type: Article

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