Memetic algorithms for feature/gene selection

• Main Author: Zhu, Zexuan
• Other Authors: Ong Yew Soon
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer applications::Life and medical sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/2489
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This dissertation presents novel memetic frameworks for the hybridization of wrapper and filter feature selection methods on classification problems. The frameworks incorporate filter methods in the traditional genetic algorithm (GA) to improve classification performance and accelerate the search in...