Abstract. In some learning settings, the cost of acquiring features for classification must be paid up front, before the classifier is evaluated. In this paper, we introduce the fo...
Jason V. Davis, Jungwoo Ha, Christopher J. Rossbac...
In medical diagnosis doctors must often determine what medical tests (e.g., X-ray, blood tests) should be ordered for a patient to minimize the total cost of medical tests and mis...
Shengli Sheng, Charles X. Ling, Ailing Ni, Shichao...
Predicting the defects in the next release of a large software system is a very valuable asset for the project manger to plan her resources. In this paper we argue that temporal f...
Abraham Bernstein, Jayalath Ekanayake, Martin Pinz...
This paper investigates how the splitting criteria and pruning methods of decision tree learning algorithms are influenced by misclassification costs or changes to the class distr...