Mini-workshop: Classifier Ensembles, Feature Selection and fMRI Data Analysis

(School of Computer Science, Bangor University, 15th and 16th of July 2009)

List of participants:

Dr Gavin Brown, Machine Learning group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester

Mr Amir Ahmad, PhD student, Machine Learning group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester

Ms Manuela Zanda, PhD student, Machine Learning group, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester

Mr Chris Whitaker, statistician, School of Psychology & NWORTH, Bangor University

Dr Zoe Hoare, statistician, NWORTH, Bangor University

Dr Juan Rodriguez, School of Informatics and Systems, University of Burgos, Spain

Dr Ludmila Kuncheva, School of Computer Science, Bangor University

Mr Thomas Christy, PhD student, School of Computer Science, Bangor University

Dr Ik Soo Lim, School of Computer Science, Bangor University

Programme:

Day 1 (On-going work) (photos 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10)

Tea and coffee, School of Computer Science, Bangor University

1. Decomposition of Majority Vote Error (GB & LK)

2. Set Classification (LK)

Lunch break at Blue Sky restaurant, Bangor

3. Mutual Information for Feature Selection (GB), slides, pdf

4. Mutual Information for Classifier Ensembles (GB), slides, pdf

5. Random Ordinality Ensembles (AA), slides, pdf

6. Feature Selection for fMRI data (LK & JR) unpublished scribble

Dinner at the Gazelle Restaurant, Menai Bridge, Anglesey (photos 1,2,3)

Day 2 (Reflections on Day 1, fresh ideas and work in progress) (photos 1,2)

1. Improvements on the Random Oracle Ensembles (AA)

2. Mutual Information, Combination Rules and Ensemble Diversity (MZ & LK)

3. Correcting for Artefacts in fMRI Data Analysis (TC)

4. Employing Human Committee-of-Experts Strategies to Classifier Ensembles (CW)

5. Ensembles of Nested Dichotomies (JR)

6. On Set Classification Using Sensitivity and Specificity (GB)

Lunch break at Lunch Box

Continued discussions on the Newborough beach (photos 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15)