A guided hybrid genetic algorithm for feature selection with expensive cost functions

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 18, Issue , 2013, Pages 2337-2346

  Jung, Martin ^a   Zscheischler, Jakob ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cost function; Diversity; Feature selection; Genetic algorithm; Niching; Random forests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896922870     PISSN: 18770509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2013.05.405     Document Type: Conference Paper

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