Kernel Factory: An ensemble of kernel machines

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 2904-2913

  Ballings, Michel ^a   Van Den Poel, Dirk ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Classification; Ensemble learning; Genetic algorithm; Kernel Factory; Machine learning; Random Forest

Indexed keywords

BETTER PERFORMANCE; BINARY CLASSIFIERS; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; COMPUTATIONAL SPEED; CROSS VALIDATION; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; ENSEMBLE METHODS; INPUT SPACE; KERNEL FUNCTION; KERNEL MACHINE; KERNEL MATRICES; KERNEL SELECTION; OPEN-SOURCE; PARTITION FORMS; RANDOM FORESTS; TRAINING DATA; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

BENCHMARKING; DECISION TREES; FORECASTING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84874656675     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.12.007     Document Type: Article

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