An Algebra to Merge Heterogeneous Classifiers

Understand

In distributed classification, each learner observes its environment and deduces a classifier.

• As a learner has only a local view of its environment, classifiers can be exchanged among the learners and integrated, or merged, to improve accuracy.
• However, the operation of merging is not defined for most classifiers.
• Furthermore, the classifiers that have to be merged may be of different types in settings such as ad-hoc networks in which several generations of sensors may be creating classifiers.