Zewen Zhang¹, Sheng Zhou¹, Chunzheng Cao^1,2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.79, No.2, pp. 2465-2480, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2024.049605

Abstract The classification of functional data has drawn much attention in recent years. The main challenge is representing infinite-dimensional functional data by finite-dimensional features while utilizing those features to achieve better classification accuracy. In this paper, we propose a mean-variance-based (MV) feature weighting method for classifying functional data or functional curves. In the feature extraction stage, each sample curve is approximated by B-splines to transfer features to the coefficients of the spline basis. After that, a feature weighting approach based on statistical principles is introduced by comprehensively considering the between-class differences and within-class variations of the… More >

Suzhen Wang¹, Zhanfeng Zhang^1,*, Shanshan Geng¹, Chaoyi Pang²

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.2, pp. 3721-3731, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.015378

Abstract As society has developed, increasing amounts of data have been generated by various industries. The random forest algorithm, as a classification algorithm, is widely used because of its superior performance. However, the random forest algorithm uses a simple random sampling feature selection method when generating feature subspaces which cannot distinguish redundant features, thereby affecting its classification accuracy, and resulting in a low data calculation efficiency in the stand-alone mode. In response to the aforementioned problems, related optimization research was conducted with Spark in the present paper. This improved random forest algorithm performs feature extraction according More >

Yuqing Yang^1,2, Dequn Zhou^1,*, Xiaojiang Yang^1,3,4

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.59, No.2, pp. 625-633, 2019, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2019.05246

Abstract Massive open online courses (MOOC) have recently gained worldwide attention in the field of education. The manner of MOOC provides a new option for learning various kinds of knowledge. A mass of data miming algorithms have been proposed to analyze the learner’s characteristics and classify the learners into different groups. However, most current algorithms mainly focus on the final grade of the learners, which may result in an improper classification. To overcome the shortages of the existing algorithms, a novel multi-feature weighting based K-means (MFWK-means) algorithm is proposed in this paper. Correlations between the widely More >