Confidence combination methods in multi-expert systems

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

Volumn 1876 LNCS, Issue , 2000, Pages 641-649

  Wu, Yingquan ^a   Ianakiev, K ^a   Govindaraju, V ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes rule; Classifier; Combination methods; Confidences; Expert; OCR

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; DIGITAL STORAGE; EXPERT SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TABLE LOOKUP;

BAYES RULE; COMBINATION METHOD; CONFIDENCE MEASURE; CONFIDENCES; EXPERT; LOOK UP TABLE; MULTI-EXPERT SYSTEMS; MUTUAL INDEPENDENCE;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 84877746146     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-44522-6_66     Document Type: Conference Paper

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