Mathematics

Research from J. Adem and co-researchers yields new findings on applied mathematics

  2008 NOV 24 - (VerticalNews.com) -- "We propose a generic model for the ''weighted voting'' aggregation step performed by several methods in Supervised classification," scientists writing in the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics report.

  "Further, we construct an algorithm to enumerate the number of distinct aggregate classifiers that arise in this model," wrote J. Adem and colleagues.

  The researchers concluded: "When there are only two classes in the classification problem, we show that a class of functions that arises from aggregate classifiers coincides with the class of self-dual positive threshold Boolean functions."

  Adem and colleagues published their study in Discrete Applied Mathematics (Counting and enumerating aggregate classifiers. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2008;156(13):2459-2468).

  Additional information can be obtained by contacting J. Adem, ING, Financial Markets, Avenue Marnix 24, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium.

  The publisher of the journal Discrete Applied Mathematics can be contacted at: Elsevier Science BV, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, Netherlands.

  Keywords: Mathematics.

  This article was prepared by VerticalNews Mathematics editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2008, VerticalNews Mathematics via VerticalNews.com.