Computational Intelligence and Feature Selection: Rough and Fuzzy Approaches

Computational Intelligence and Feature Selection: Rough and Fuzzy Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-339

  Jensen, Richard ^a   Shen, Qiang ^a  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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