Delineating the tremendous growth in this area, the Handbook of Approximation Algorithms
and Metaheuristics covers fundamental, theoretical topics as well as advanced, practical …

Background In November 2007 a study published in Nature Medicine proposed a simple
test based on the abundance of 18 proteins in blood to predict the onset of clinical symptoms …

In this sequel to our previous work [Rosso OA, Mendes A, Rostas JA, Hunter M, Moscato P.
Distinguishing childhood absence epilepsy patients from controls by the analysis of their …

Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara demokratis di dunia ini. Negara Indonesia yang
terdiri dari beberapa kepulauan melahirkan berbagai macam suku dan budaya. Negara …

This chapter illustrates the use of the combinatorial optimization models presented in
Chapter 19 for the Feature Set selection and Gene Ordering problems to find genetic …

Microarray technologies allow the measurement of thousands of gene expression levels
simultaneously. With them biologists can have a powerful new tool to analyse the complex …

Three different methodologies have been applied to microarray data from brains of
Alzheimer diagnosed patients and healthy patients taken as control. A clear pattern of …

In this chapter we present a method based on the (α, β)-k-feature set problem for identifying
relevant attributes in high-dimensional datasets for classification purposes. We present a …

The feature selection problem aims to choose a subset of a given set of features that best
represents the whole in a particular aspect, preserving the original semantics of the …

Abstract Background The (α, β)-k-Feature Set Problem is a combinatorial problem, that has
been proven as alternative to typical methods for reducing the dimensionality of large …