Margin theory provides one of the most popular explanations to the success of AdaBoost, where the central point lies in the recognition that margin is the key for characterizing the performance of AdaBoost. This theory has been very influential, e.g., it has been used to argue that AdaBoost usually does not overfit since it tends to enlarge the margin even after the training error reaches zero....

Support vector machines (SVMs) and Boosting are possibly the two most popular learning approaches during the past two decades. It is well known that the margin is a fundamental issue of SVMs, whereas recently the margin theory for Boosting has been defended, establishing a connection between these two mainstream approaches. The recent theoretical results disclosed that the margin distribution r...

Although fuzzy support vector machine introduces the fuzzy membership degree in maximizing the margin and improves performance of classifier, it has not fully considered the position of training samples in the margin. In this paper, a double margin (rough margin) based fuzzy support vector machine (RFSVM) algorithm is presented by introducing rough set into fuzzy support vector machine. Firstly...

OBJECTIVE One problem existing in breast-conservation surgery is ipsilateral breast tumour recurrence, and one of its major risk factors is surgical margin positivity. We therefore investigated whether total-circumference surgical margin examination can reduce surgical margin-positive rates. METHODS A total of 122 cases were examined after BCS was performed between March 2004 and March 2006. ...

background: now the vast majority of breast tumors are treated using breast conservation therapy (bct) method, including lumpectomy and radiotherapy. this study aimed to evaluate the effects of intraoperative frozen section in patients undergoing breast conservation surgery. methods: totally 237 women who included in the category for breast conservative or oncoplastic surgery and post-operative...

in this paper, the static var compensator (svc) has been used to improve dynamic behaviour of power system. to do this, a new objective function is formulated considering power loss reduction, voltage profile improvement and loadability margin decrease. other contribution of this research is proposing a novel structure for particle swarm optimization (pso) algorithm through modifying the initia...

conclusions the castings fabricated from the ringless technique with non-precious alloy are acceptable. this investing system is useable for the fabrication of fixed restorations. results after statistical evaluation, the following results were obtained: the mean vertical margin discrepancy for conventional investing was 156.72 ± 64.67µ; for the ringless technique it was 117.3 ± 26.77µ; and for...

this study analyzed the performance of cabbage marketing in abia state, nigeria. specifically the study sought to: describe socio-economic characteristics of cabbage marketers; identify marketing channels of cabbage; determine marketing cost components of cabbage marketers; determine marketing margins, market share and marketing efficiency of cabbage marketers; and determine socio-economic fact...

gilan province is among the most important regions of iran for rice production. the general aim of this research is to determine the best variety of rice for planting, so that the minimum level for farmer's expected living gross margin can be provided. on the other hand, determining the best variety with regard to the risk in price is another aim of this research. to this end two risk models ba...