KNN is one of the most popular classification methods, but it often fails to work well with inappropriate choice of distance metric or due to the presence of numerous class-irrelevant features. Linear feature transformation methods have been widely applied to extract class-relevant information to improve kNN classification, which is very limited in many applications. Kernels have been used to l...

The k-nearest neighbor (kNN) is one of the simplest classification methods used in machine learning. Since the main component of kNN is a distance metric, kernelization of kNN is possible. In this paper kNN and semi-supervised kNN algorithms are empirically compared on two data sets (the USPS data set and a subset of the Reuters-21578 text categorization corpus). We use a soft version of the kN...

K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) is one of the most popular algorithms for data classification. Many researchers have found that the KNN algorithm accomplishes very good performance in their experiments on different datasets. The traditional KNN text classification algorithm has limitations: calculation complexity, the performance is solely dependent on the training set, and so on. To overcome these li...

K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) is one of the most popular algorithms for data classification. Many researchers have found that the KNN algorithm accomplishes very good performance in their experiments on different datasets. The traditional KNN text classification algorithm has limitations: calculation complexity, the performance is solely dependent on the training set, and so on. To overcome these li...

The widespread use of location-aware devices has led to countless location-based services in which a user query can be arbitrarily complex, i.e., one that embeds multiple spatial selection and join predicates. Amongst these predicates, the k-Nearest-Neighbor (kNN) predicate stands as one of the most important and widely used predicates. Unlike related research, this paper goes beyond the optimi...

Short-term traffic forecasting is becoming more important in intelligent transportation systems. The k-nearest neighbours (kNN) method is widely used for short-term traffic forecasting. However, the self-adjustment of kNN parameters has been a problem due to dynamic traffic characteristics. This paper proposes a fully automatic dynamic procedure kNN (DP-kNN) that makes the kNN parameters self-a...