VORTRAG ******* Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OeFAI) Schottengasse 3, A-1010 Wien Tel.: +43-1-53361120, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@oefai.at ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Dr. Saso Dzeroski Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia IS COMBINING CLASSIFIERS BETTER THAN SELECTING THE BEST ONE? We empirically evaluate several state-of-the-art methods for constructing ensembles of classifiers with stacking and show that they perform (at best) comparably to selecting the best classifier from the ensemble by cross validation. We then propose a new method for stacking, that uses multi-response model trees at the meta-level, and show that it clearly outperforms existing stacking approaches, as well as selecting the best classifier from the ensemble by cross validation. Zeit: Montag, 18. Feber 2002, 18:30 Uhr pktl. Ort: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence Schottengasse 3, 1010 Wien. OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Robert Trappl