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...To enhance classification performances, we propose an ensemble of classifiers that combine the classification outputs of base classifiers using the simplest and largely used majority voting approach. Instead of creating the ensemble using all base classifiers, we have implemented a genetic algorithm (GA) to search for the best combination from heterogeneous base classifiers. The classification performances achieved by the proposed method method on the chosen datasets are promising.

We propose the use of Differential Evolution algorithm for the weight adjustment of base classifiers used in weighted voting heterogeneous ensemble of classifier. Average Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC) score, calculated over 10-fold cross-validation, has been used as the measure of quality of an ensemble. DE/rand/1/bin algorithm has been utilised to maximize the average MCC score calculated using 10-fold cross-validation on training dataset. The voting weights of base classifiers are optimized for the heterogeneous ensemble of classifiers aiming to attain better generalization performances on testing datasets.