Instance-based learning techniques of unsupervised feature weighting do not perform so badly!

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Volumn 110, Issue , 2004, Pages 102-106

  Núñez, Héctor ^a   Sànchez Marrè, Miquel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SUPERVISED LEARNING;

FEATURE WEIGHTING; INSTANCE-BASED LEARNING TECHNIQUES; MACHINE LEARNING COMMUNITIES; PAPER TESTS; PERFORMANCE; POWER; SUPERVISED METHODS; UNSUPERVISED METHOD; WEIGHTING TECHNIQUES;

UNSUPERVISED LEARNING;

EID: 85017355166     PISSN: 09226389     EISSN: 18798314     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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