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| Bibliographic references on Classifier Combination related topics             |
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| Compiled by Nina S. T. Hirata                                                 |
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| Initiated in 2005 as a part of the project "Combinação de Classificadores"    |
| sponsored by FAPESP, grant 2004/11586-7 (July 01/2005 to June 30/2007)        |
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@string{pami =    "IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence"}     
@string{pr =      "Pattern Recognition" } 
@string{prl =     "Pattern Recognition Letters" }


@Article{Aksela:2003,
  author = 	 {M. Aksela and R. Girdziusas and J. Laaksonen and E. Oja and J. Kangas},
  title = 	 {Methods for adaptive combination of classifiers with
                  application to recognition of handwritten
                  characters},
  journal = 	 {International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition},
  year = 	 {2003},
  volume = 	 {6},
  pages = 	 {23-41}
}

@InProceedings{AlKofahi:2001,
  author =       "K. Al-Kofahi and A. Tyrrell and A. Vachher and T. Travers and P. Jackson",
  title =        "Combining Multiple Classifiers for Text Categorization",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings of CIKM-01, 10th ACM International
                 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management",
  publisher =    "ACM Press, New York, US",
  editor =       "Henrique Paques and Ling Liu and David Grossman",
  year =         "2001",
  address =      "Atlanta, US",
  pages =        "97--104"
}

@Article{Alani:1993,
  author = 	 {A. Al-Ani and M. Deriche},
  title = 	 {A New Technique for Combining Multiple Classifiers
                  using The Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence},
  journal = 	 {Artificial Intelligence Research},
  year = 	 {1993},
  volume = 	 {17}
}

@Article{Allwein:2000,
  author = 	 {E. L. Allwein and R. E. Schapire and Y. Singer},
  title = 	 {Reducing Multiclass to Binary: A Unifying Approach
                  for Margin Classifiers},
  journal = 	 {Journal of Machine Learning Research},
  year = 	 {2000},
  volume = 	 {1},
  pages = 	 {113-141}
}

@Article{Alpaydin:1998,
  author =       {E. Alpaydin and C. Kaynak},
  title =        {{Cascading Classifiers}},
  journal =      {Kybernetika},
  year =         {1998},
  volume =       {34},
  number =       {4},
  pages =        {369-374}
}

@InProceedings{Alpaydin:1998b,
  author =       {E. Alpaydin},
  title =        {{Techniques for Combining Multiple Learners}},
  booktitle =    {Engineering of Intelligent Systems EIS'98},
  pages =        {6-12},
  year =         {1998},
  volume =       {2},
  address =      {Teneriffe, Spain},
  month =        {February}
}

@InProceedings{Alpaydin:2000,
  author = 	 {E. Alpaydin and C. Kaynak and F. Alimoglu},
  title = 	 {Cascading Multiple Classifiers and Representations
                  for Optical and Pen-Based Handwritten Digit
                  Recognition},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 7th IWFHR},
  pages = 	 {453-462},
  year = 	 {2000}
}

@Article{Amit:2004,
  author = 	 {Y. Amit and D. Geman and X. Fan},
  title = 	 {A Coarse-to-Fine Strategy for Multiclass Shape Detection},
  journal = 	 pami,
  year = 	 {2004},
  volume = 	 {26},
  number = 	 {12},
  pages = 	 {1606-1621}
}

@book{AnthBiggs:1992,
  author    = "M. Anthony and N. Biggs",
  title     = "Computational Learning Theory - An Introduction",
  publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
  year      = "1992"
}

@InCollection{Antho:1993,
  author = 	 {Martin Anthony and Norman Biggs},
  title = 	 {Computational learning theory for artificial neural networks},
  booktitle = 	 {Mathematical Approaches to Neural Networks},
  pages = 	 {25--63},
  publisher =    {North-Holland},
  year = 	 {1993},
  editor = 	 {J.G. Taylor}
}

@Article{Antho:1993a,
  author = 	 {Martin Anthony and John Shawe-Taylor},
  title = 	 {A result of Vapnik with applications},
  journal = 	 {Discrete Applied Mathematics},
  year = 	 {1993},
  volume = 	 {47},
  pages = 	 {207--217}
}

@Article{Arti:2002,
  author = 	 {T. Arti{\`{e}}res and N. Gauthier and P. Gallinari and B. Dorizzi},
  title = 	 {A Hidden Markov Models combination framework for
                  handwriting recognition},
  journal = 	 {International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition},
  year = 	 {2002},
  volume = 	 {5},
  pages = 	 {233-243}
}

@InProceedings{Atlas:1990,
  author =       {L. Atlas and R. Cole and Y. Muthusamy and A. Lippman
                  and J. Connor and D. Park and M. El-Sharkawi and
                  R. J. Marks II},
  title =        {{A Performance Comparison of Trained Multilayer
                  Perceptrons and Trained Classification Trees}},
  booktitle =    {Proceedings of the IEEE},
  pages =        {1614-1619},
  year =         {1990},
  volume =       {78},
  month =        {October}
}

@InCollection{Bartlett:2002,
  author = 	 {P. L. Bartlett},
  title = 	 {An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning Theory:
                  Value Function Methods},
  booktitle = 	 {Machine Learning Summer School},
  crossref =  {LNCS:2600},
  pages = 	 {184-202},
  year = 	 {2002},
  volume = 	 {2600},
  series = 	 {LNCS}
}

@Article{Bauer:1999,
  author = 	 {E. Bauer and R. Kohavi},
  title = 	 {An Empirical Comparison of Voting Classification
                  Algorithms: Bagging, Boosting, and Variants},
  journal = 	 {Machine Learning},
  year = 	 {1999},
  volume = 	 {36},
  pages = 	 {105-139}
}

@InProceedings{Behnke:1998,
  author =       {S. Behnke and M. Pfister and R. Rojas},
  title =        {{A Study on the Combination of Classifiers for
                  Handwritten Digit Recognition}},
  booktitle =    {Proceedings  NN'98},
  pages =        {39-46},
  year =         {1998},
  address =      {Magdeburg}
}

@Article{Beiden:2003,
  author = 	 {S. V. Beiden and M. A. Maloof and Robert F. Wagner},
  title = 	 {A General Model for Finite-Sample Effects in
                  Training and Testing of Competing Classifiers},
  journal = 	 pami,
  year = 	 {2003},
  volume = 	 {25},
  number = 	 {12},
  pages = 	 {1561-1569}
}

@Article{Bellili:2003,
  author = 	 {A. Bellili and  M. Gilloux and P. Gallinari},
  title = 	 {An MLP-SVM combination architecture for online
                  handwritten digit recognition: Reduction of
                  recognition errors by Support Vector Machines
                  rejection mechanisms},
  journal = 	 {International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition},
  year = 	 {2003},
  volume = 	 {5},
  pages = 	 {244-252}
}

@TechReport{Bertoni:1997,
  author =       {A. Bertoni and P. Campadelli and N. C.-Bianch},
  title =        {{Multilayer Perceptrons and Learning}},
  institution =  {University of London},
  year =         {1997},
  type =         {NeuroCOLT Technical Report Series},
  number =       {NC-TR-97-009},
  month =        {February}
}

@Book{Bishop:1996,
  author = 	 {C. M. Bishop},
  title = 	 {Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition},
  publisher = 	 {Oxford : Clarendon},
  year = 	 {1996}
}

@InProceedings{Blanzieri:2000,
  booktitle =    "Machine Learning: ECML 2000, 11th European Conference
                 on Machine Learning, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, May
                 31 - June 2, 2000, Proceedings",
  title =        "Exploiting Classifier Combination for Early Melanoma
                 Diagnosis Support",
  author =       "E. Blanzieri and C. Eccher and S. Forti and A. Sboner",
  series =       "Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence",
  volume =       "1810",
  publisher =    "Springer",
  year =         "2000",
  pages =        "55--62"
}
 	
 
@Article{Safavian:1991,
  author = 	 {S. R. Safavian and D. Landgrebe},
  title = 	 {A survey of decision tree classifier methodology},
  journal = 	 {IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics},
  year = 	 {1991},
  Tvolume = 	 {21},
  Tnumber = 	 {3},
  pages = 	 {660-674}
}

@Article{Blumer:1989,
  author = 	 {Anselm Blumer and A. Ehrenfeucht and David Haussler and Manfred K. Warmuth},
  title = 	 {{Learnability and the Vapnik-Chervonenkis Dimension}},
  journal = 	 {Journal of the ACM},
  year = 	 {1989},
  volume = 	 {36},
  number = 	 {4},
  pages = 	 {}
}

@Article{Bollacker:1997,
  author =       {K. D. Bollacker and J. Ghosh},
  title =        {{Knowledge Reuse in Multiple Classifier Systems}},
  journal =      prl,
  year =         {1997},
  volume =       {18},
  number =       {11-13},
  pages =        {1385-1390},
  month =        {November}
}

@Article{Bovino:2003,
  author = 	 {L. Bovino and G. Dimauro and S. Impedovo and
                  M.G. Lucchese and R. Modugno and G. Pirlo and
                  A. Salzo and L. Sarcinella},
  title = 	 {On the combination of abstract-level classifiers},
  journal = 	 {International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition},
  year = 	 {2003},
  volume = 	 {6},
  pages = 	 {42-54}
}

@Article{Bradley:1997,
  author = 	 {A. P. Bradley},
  title = 	 {{The Use of the Area Under the ROC Curve in the
                  Evaluation of Machine Learning Algorithms}},
  journal = 	 {Pattern Recognition},
  year = 	 {1997},
  volume = 	 {30},
  number = 	 {7},
  pages = 	 {1145-1159}
}
 
@Book{BreFriOlSton:1984,
  author =       "L. Breiman and J. H. Friedman and R. A. Olshen and
                  C. J. Stone",
  title =        "{Classification and Regression Trees}",
  publisher =    "Wadsworth International Group",
  year =         "1984",
  series =       "The Wadsworth Statistics/Probability Series"
}

@Article{Breiman:1996,
  author = 	 {L. Breiman},
  title = 	 {Technical Note: Some Properties of Splitting Criteria},
  journal = 	 {Machine Learning},
  year = 	 {1996},
  volume = 	 {24},
  number = 	 {1},
  pages = 	 {41-47}
}

@aerticle{Meyer:2003,
  AUTHOR = {D. Meyer and F. Leisch and K. Hornik},
  TITLE = {The Support Vector Machine under Test},
  JOURNAL = {Neurocomputing},
  YEAR = 2003,
  MONTH = {September},
  PAGES = {169--186},
  VOLUME = 55
}

@Article{Breiman:1996a,
  author = 	 {L. Breiman},
  title = 	 {Bagging Predictors},
  journal = 	 {Machine Learning},
  year = 	 {1996},
  volume = 	 {24},
  number =       {2},
  pages = 	 {123-140}
}

@Article{Breiman:1998,
  author = 	 {L. Breiman},
  title = 	 {Arcing Classifiers},
  journal = 	 {Ann. Statist.},
  year = 	 {1998},
  volume = 	 {26},
  number = 	 {3},
  pages = 	 {801-849}
}

@InProceedings{Brill:1998a,
  author =       "E. Brill and J. Wu",
  title =        "Classifier Combination for Improved Lexical
                 Disambiguation",
  booktitle =    "Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the
                 {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics and
                 Seventeenth International Conference on Computational
                 Linguistics",
  year =         "1998",
  editor =       "Christian Boitet and Pete Whitelock",
  pages =        "191--195",
  organization = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
  publisher =    "Morgan Kaufmann Publishers"
}

@PhdThesis{Buntine:1992,
  author = 	 {W. L. Buntine},
  title = 	 {{A Theory of Learning Classification Rules}},
  school = 	 {School of Computing Science, University of Technology},
  year = 	 {1992},
  address = 	 {Sydney}
}

@Article{Burges:1998,
  author = 	 {C. Burges},
  title = 	 {A Tutorial on Support Vector Machines for Pattern Recognition},
  journal = 	 {Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery},
  year = 	 {1998},
  volume = 	 {2},
  pages = 	 {121-167}
}

@Article{Busse:1993,
  author =       {W. Grzymala-Busse},
  title =        {{Selected Algorithms of Machine Learning from
                  Examples}},
  journal =      {Fundamenta Informaticae},
  year =         {1993},
  volume =       {18},
  pages =        {193-207}
}

@Article{Cakmakov:2002,
  author = 	 {D. Cakmakov and V. Radevski and Y. Bennani and D. Gorgevik},
  title = 	 {Decision Fusion and Reliability Control in Handwritten Digit Recognition System},
  journal = 	 {Journal of Computing and Information Technology},
  year = 	 {2002},
  volume = 	 {10},
  number = 	 {4},
  pages = 	 {283-293}
}

@Article{Cao:1995,
  author =       {J. Cao and M. Ahmadi and M. Shridhar},
  title =        {{Recognition of Handwritten Numerals with Multiple
                  Feature and Multistage Classifier}},
  journal =      pr,
  year =         {1995},
  volume =       {28},
  number =       {2},
  pages =        {153-160}
}

@Book{Cherkassky:1998,
  author = 	 {V. Cherkassky and F. Mulier},
  title = 	 {Learning from Data -- Concepts, Theory and Methods},
  publisher = 	 {John Wiley \& Sons},
  year = 	 {1998}
}

@Article{Conversano:2000,
  author =       "C. Conversano and R. Siciliano and F. Mola",
  title =        "Supervised Classifier Combination through Generalized
                 Additive Multi-model",
  journal =      "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume =       "1857",
  pages =        "167--??",
  year =         "2000",
  coden =        "LNCSD9",
  ISSN =         "0302-9743"
}

@Article{Cover:1967,
  author = 	 {T. M. Cover and P. E. Hart},
  title = 	 {Nearest Neighbor Pattern Classification},
  journal = 	 {IEEE Transactions on Information Theory},
  year = 	 {1967},
  volume = 	 {IT-13},
  number = 	 {1},
  pages = 	 {21-27}
}

@Book{Cristianini:2000,
  author = 	 {N. Cristianini and J. Shawe-Taylor},
  title = 	 {An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and other kernel-based learning methods},
  publisher = 	 {Cambridge University Press},
  year = 	 {2000}
}

@InCollection{Dahmen:2001,
  author = 	 {J. Dahmen and D. Keysers and H. Ney},
  title = 	 {{Combined Clasification of Handwritten Digits Using the 'Virtual Test Sample Method'}},
  booktitle = 	 {Multiple Classifier Systems: Second International Workshop, MCS 2001},
  pages = 	 {109-118},
  year = 	 {2001},
  editor = 	 {J. Kittler and F. Roli},
  volume = 	 {LNCS 2096},
  series = 	 {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}
}

@Article{Devroye:1988,
  author =       {L. Devroye},
  title =        {{Automatic Pattern Recognition: A Study of the
                  Probability of Error}},
  journal =      pami,
  year =         {1988},
  volume =       {10},
  number =       {4},
  pages =        {530-543},
  month =        {July}
}

@Book{Devroye:1996,
  author =       "L. Devroye and L. Gy{\"{o}}rffi and G. Lugosi",
  title =        "A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition",
  publisher =    "Springer-Verlag",
  year =         "1996"
}

@Article{Diett:1995,
  author = 	 {T. G. Dietterich and G. Bakiri},
  title = 	 {Solving Multiclass Learning Problems via Error-Correcting Output Codes},
  journal = 	 {Artificial Intelligence Research},
  year = 	 {1995}
}

@InCollection{Diett:2000,
  author = 	 {T. G. Dietterich},
  title = 	 {{Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning}},
  booktitle = 	 {Multiple Classifier Systems: First International Workshop, MCS 2000},
  pages = 	 {1-15},
  year = 	 {2000},
  editor = 	 {J. Kittler and F. Roli},
  volume = 	 {LNCS 1857},
  series = 	 {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
}

@Article{Diggavi:1995,
  author =       {S. N. Diggavi and J. J. Shynk and N. J. Bershad},
  title =        {{Convergence Models for Rosenblatt's Perceptron
                  Learning Algorithm}},
  journal =      ieeesp,
  year =         {1995},
  volume =       {43},
  number =       {7},
  pages =        {1696-1702},
  month =        {July}
}

@Article{Draper:1994,
  author = 	 {B. A. Draper and C. E. Brodley and P. E. Utgoff},
  title = 	 {{Goal-directed Classification using Linear Machine
                  Decision Trees}},
  journal = 	 pami,
  year = 	 {1994},
  volume = 	 {16},
  number = 	 {9},
  pages = 	 {888-893},
  month = 	 {September}
}

@book{DuHar:1973,
  author    = "R. O. Duda and P. E. Hart",
  title     = "Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis",
  publisher = "John Wiley and Sons",
  year      = "1973"
}

@book{DuHarSto:2001,
  author    = "R. O. Duda and P. E. Hart and D. G. Stork",
  title     = "Pattern Classification",
  publisher = "John Wiley and Sons",
  year      = "2001"
}

@article{DucSchapSim:1993,
  author  = "H. Drucker and R. Schapire and P. Simard",
  title   = "{Boosting Performance in Neural Networks}",
  journal = "International Journal of Pattern Recognition and
                  Artificial Intelligence",
  year    = "1993",
  volume  = "7",
  number  = "4",
  pages   = "705-719"
}

@Article{Esposito:1997,
  author =       {F. Esposito and D. Malerba and G. Semeraro},
  title =        {{A Comparative Analysis of Methods for Pruning
                  Decision Trees}},
  journal =      pami,
  year =         {1997},
  volume =       {19},
  number =       {5},
  pages =        {},
  month =        {May}
}

@InProceedings{Fan:2005,
  author = 	 {X. Fan},
  title = 	 {Efficient Multiclass Object Detection by a Hierarchy of Classifiers},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society
                  Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern
                  Recognition},
  year = 	 {2005}
}

@InProceedings{Frank:,
  author = 	 {E. Frank and I. H. Witten},
  title = 	 {{Selecting Multiway Splits in Decision Trees}},
  booktitle = 	 {Proc. of the Fifteenth Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages = 	 {152-160},
  year = 	 {},
  editor = 	 {J. Shavlik},
  address = 	 {San Francisco, CA},
  publisher =    {Morgan Kaufmann}
}

@InProceedings{Freund:1995,
  author = 	 {Yoav Freund and Robert E. Schapire},
  title = 	 {A decision-theoretic generalization of on-line
                  learning and an application to boosting},
  booktitle = 	 {Second European Conference on Computational Learning Theory},
  year = 	 {1995}
}

@Article{Freund:1997,
  author = 	 {Y. Freund and R. E. Schapire},
  title = 	 {A Decision-Theoretic Generalization of On-Line Learning and an Application to Boosting},
  journal = 	 {Journal of Computer and System Sciences},
  year = 	 {1997},
  volume = 	 {55},
  pages = 	 {119-139}
}

@Article{Freund:1999,
  author = 	 {Y. Freund and R. E. Schapire},
  title = 	 {A short introduction to boosting},
  journal = 	 {Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence},
  year = 	 {1999},
  volume = 	 {14},
  number = 	 {5},
  pages = 	 {771-780},
  note = 	 {in Japanese, translation by N. Abe}
}

@Article{Fukunaga:1989,
  author = 	 {K. Fukunaga and R. R. Hayes},
  title = 	 {Estimation of Classifier Performance},
  journal = 	 pami,
  year = 	 {1989},
  volume = 	 {11},
  number = 	 {10},
  pages = 	 {1087-1101}
}

@Article{Fukunaga:1989a,
  author =       "K. Fukunaga and R. R. Hayes",
  title =        "{Effects of Sample Size in Classifier Design}",
  journal =      pami,
  year =         "1989",
  volume =       "11",
  number =       "8",
  month =        "August"
}

@Book{Fukunaga:1990,
  author =       {F. Fukunaga},
  title =        {Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition},
  publisher =    {Academic Press},
  year =         {1990},
  edition =      {2nd}
}

@Book{Gammer:1996,
  editor =       {A. Gammerman},
  title =        {{Computational Learning and Probabilistic
                  Reasoning}},
  publisher =    {John Wiley and Sons},
  year =         {1996}
}

@Article{Gandhi:1991,
  author = 	 {P. P. Gandhi and S. A. Kassam},
  title = 	 {Design and performance of combination filters for
                  signal restoration},
  journal = 	 {IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing},
  year = 	 {1991},
  volume = 	 {39},
  number = 	 {7},
  pages = 	 {1524-1540}
}

@Article{Ghoneim:1998,
  author =       {K. Al-Ghoneim and B. V. K. V. Kumar},
  title =        {{Unified Decision Combination Framework}},
  journal =      pr,
  year =         {1998},
  volume =       {31},
  number =       {12},
  pages =        {2077-2089},
  month =        {December}
}

@InCollection{Ghosh:2002,
  author = 	 {J. Ghosh},
  title = 	 {{Multiclassifier Systems: Back to the Future}},
  booktitle = 	 {Multiple Classifier Systems: Third International Workshop, MCS 2002},
  pages = 	 {1-15},
  year = 	 {2002},
  editor = 	 {F. Roli and J. Kittler},
  volume = 	 {LNCS 2364},
  series = 	 {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}
}

@InProceedings{Giacinto:2000,
  author = 	 {G. Giacinto and F. Roli},
  title = 	 {A theoretical framework for dynamic classifier
                  selection},
  booktitle = 	 {15th International Conference on Pattern
                  Recognition},
  pages = 	 {8-11},
  year = 	 {2000},
  volume = 	 {2}
}

@Article{Gibson:1990,
  author =       {G. J. Gibson and C. F. N. Cowan},
  title =        {{On the Decision Regions of Multilayer Perceptrons}},
  journal =      {Proceedings of the IEEE},
  year =         {1990},
  volume =       {78},
  number =       {10},
  pages =        {1590-1594},
  month =        {October}
}

@Article{Giusti:2002,
  author = 	 {N. Giusti and F. Masulli and A. Sperduti},
  title = 	 {Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of a Two-Stage System for Classification},
  journal = 	 pami,
  year = 	 {2002},
  volume = 	 {24},
  number = 	 {7},
  pages = 	 {893-904}
}

@article{GolRivSchap:1993,
  author  = "S. A. Goldman and R. L. Rivest and R. E. Schapire",
  title   = "{Learning Binary Relations and Total Orders}",
  journal = "Siam J. Comput.",
  year    = "1993",
  month   = "October",
  volume  = "22",
  number  = "5",
  pages   = "1006-1034"
}

@Book{Goldberg:1989,
  author = 	 {D. Goldberg},
  title = 	 {Genetic Algorithms in Optimization, Search and
                  Machine Learning},
  publisher = 	 {Addison-Wesley},
  year = 	 {1989}
}

@TechReport{Goldman:1993,
  author =       {S. A. Goldman and M. K. Warmuth},
  title =        {{Learning Binary Relations Using Weighted Majority Voting}},
  institution =  {},
  year =         {1993},
  number =       {UCSC-CRL-93-51}
}

@Article{Gu:2000,
  author = 	 {H. Gu and H. Takahashi},
  title = 	 {{How Bad May Learning Curves Be?}},
  journal = 	 pami,
  year = 	 {2000},
  volume = 	 {22},
  number = 	 {10},
  pages = 	 {1155-1167},
  month = 	 {October}
}

@Article{Gunter:2003,
  author = 	 {S. G{\"{u}}nter and H. Bunke},
  title = 	 {Ensembles of classifiers for handwritten word recognition},
  journal = 	 {International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition},
  year = 	 {2003},
  volume = 	 {5},
  pages = 	 {224-232}
}

@Article{Guyon:1998,
  author =       {I. Guyon and J. Makhoul and R. Schwartz and V. Vapnik},
  title =        {{What Size Test Set Gives Good Error Rate Estimates?}},
  journal =      pami,
  year =         {1998},
  volume =       {20},
  number =       {1},
  pages =        {52-64},
  month =        {January}
}

@Article{Hanley:1982,
  author = 	 {J. A. Hanley and B. J. McNeil},
  title = 	 {{The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve}},
  journal = 	 {Radiology},
  year = 	 {1982},
  volume = 	 {143},
  pages = 	 {29-36}
}

@Book{Hassoun:1995,
  author = 	 "M. H. Hassoun",
  title = 	 "Fundamentals of Artificial Neural Net",
  publisher = 	 "MIT Press",
  year = 	 "1995"
}

@Book{Hastie:2001,
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