Towards an automated classification of transient events in synoptic sky surveys

Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Intelligent Data Understanding, CIDU 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 174-188

  Djorgovski, S G ^a,c   Donalek, C ^a   Mahabal, A A ^a   Moghaddam, B ^b   Turmon, M ^b   Graham, M J ^a   Drake, A J ^a   Sharma, N ^a   Chen, Y ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION; BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CLASSIFICATION AMBIGUITY; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP; TRANSIENT EVENTS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NASA; SURVEYS;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84893322822     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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