Applications of Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)

This book contains the extended papers presented at the 2nd Workshop on Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and their Applications (SUEMA)heldon21-22July,2008inPatras,Greece,inconjunctionwiththe 18thEuropeanConferenceon Arti?cial Intelligence(ECAI 2008). This wo- shop was a successor of the smaller event held in 2007 in conjunction with 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Girona, Spain. The success of that event as well as the publication of workshop - pers in the edited book "Supervised and Unsupervised Ensemble Methods and their Applications", published by Springer-Verlag in Studies in Com- tational Intelligence Series in volume 126, encouraged us to continue a good tradition. The scope of both SUEMA workshops (hence, the book as well) is the application of theoretical ideas in the ?eld of ensembles of classi?cation and clusteringalgorithmstoreal/lifeproblemsinscienceandindustry. Ensembles, which represent a number of algorithms whose class or cluster membership predictions are combined together to produce a single outcome value, have alreadyprovedto be a viable alternativeto a single best algorithmin various practical tasks under di?erent scenarios, from bioinformatics to biometrics, from medicine to network security. The ensemble approach is caused to life by the famous "no free lunch" theorem, stating that there is no absolutely best algorithm to solve all problems. Although ensembles cannot be cons- ered as absolute remedy of a single algorithm de?ciency, it is widely believed thatensemblesprovideabetteranswerto"nofreelunch"theoremthanas- glebestalgorithm. Statistical,algorithmical,representational,computational and practical reasons can explain the success of ensemble methods.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Studies in Computational Intelligence, 245
Release date:	October 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	Oleg Okun
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	268
Edition:	2010 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-03998-0
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Technical design > Computer aided design (CAD) Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > General
LSN:	3-642-03998-7
Barcode:	9783642039980

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