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Support Vector Machines and Evolutionary Algorithms for Classification

Single or Together?

  • Guides the reader from single methodologies, like support vector machines and evolutionary algorithms, to hybridization at different levels between the two, showing the benefits and drawbacks of each
  • Contains new approaches to classification personally developed and tested by the authors based on evolutionary algorithms and support vector machines
  • Fills the gaps between theoretical classification and the practical issues revolving around computer aided diagnosis

Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems Reference Library (ISRL, volume 69)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-12
  2. Introduction

    • Catalin Stoean, Ruxandra Stoean
    Pages 1-4
  3. Support Vector Machines

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-6
    2. Support Vector Learning and Optimization

      • Catalin Stoean, Ruxandra Stoean
      Pages 7-25
  4. Evolutionary Algorithms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-28
    2. Overview of Evolutionary Algorithms

      • Catalin Stoean, Ruxandra Stoean
      Pages 29-45
    3. Genetic Chromodynamics

      • Catalin Stoean, Ruxandra Stoean
      Pages 47-56
    4. Cooperative Coevolution

      • Catalin Stoean, Ruxandra Stoean
      Pages 57-73
  5. Support Vector Machines and Evolutionary Algorithms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-76
    2. Evolutionary Algorithms Optimizing Support Vector Learning

      • Catalin Stoean, Ruxandra Stoean
      Pages 77-89
    3. Evolutionary Algorithms Explaining Support Vector Learning

      • Catalin Stoean, Ruxandra Stoean
      Pages 91-109
    4. Final Remarks

      • Catalin Stoean, Ruxandra Stoean
      Pages 111-112
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 113-121

About this book

When discussing classification, support vector machines are known to be a capable and efficient technique to learn and predict with high accuracy within a quick time frame. Yet, their black box means to do so make the practical users quite circumspect about relying on it, without much understanding of the how and why of its predictions. The question raised in this book is how can this ‘masked hero’ be made more comprehensible and friendly to the public: provide a surrogate model for its hidden optimization engine, replace the method completely or appoint a more friendly approach to tag along and offer the much desired explanations? Evolutionary algorithms can do all these and this book presents such possibilities of achieving high accuracy, comprehensibility, reasonable runtime as well as unconstrained performance.

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From the book reviews:

“This book is intended for scholars, students, and developers who are interested and engaged in machine learning approaches and, particularly, in classification approaches via support vector machines (SVMs). … the book is recommended to those with advanced knowledge in machine learning and, in particular, SVMs as a hypothesis modeling classification approach. … the presentation of each topic remains systematic and the authors make good use of examples throughout the book.” (Epaminondas Kapetanios, Computing Reviews, November, 2014)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sci. Department of Computer Science, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania

    Catalin Stoean, Ruxandra Stoean

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Support Vector Machines and Evolutionary Algorithms for Classification

  • Book Subtitle: Single or Together?

  • Authors: Catalin Stoean, Ruxandra Stoean

  • Series Title: Intelligent Systems Reference Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06941-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06940-1Published: 13 June 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38243-2Published: 17 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06941-8Published: 15 May 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1868-4394

  • Series E-ISSN: 1868-4408

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 122

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Computational Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence

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eBook USD 84.99
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  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

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