TY - JOUR T1 - Argumentation based joint learning: a novel ensemble learning approach. AU - Xu,Junyi, AU - Yao,Li, AU - Li,Le, Y1 - 2015/05/12/ PY - 2014/11/20/received PY - 2015/04/13/accepted PY - 2015/5/13/entrez PY - 2015/5/13/pubmed PY - 2016/2/20/medline SP - e0127281 EP - e0127281 JF - PloS one JO - PLoS One VL - 10 IS - 5 N2 - Recently, ensemble learning methods have been widely used to improve classification performance in machine learning. In this paper, we present a novel ensemble learning method: argumentation based multi-agent joint learning (AMAJL), which integrates ideas from multi-agent argumentation, ensemble learning, and association rule mining. In AMAJL, argumentation technology is introduced as an ensemble strategy to integrate multiple base classifiers and generate a high performance ensemble classifier. We design an argumentation framework named Arena as a communication platform for knowledge integration. Through argumentation based joint learning, high quality individual knowledge can be extracted, and thus a refined global knowledge base can be generated and used independently for classification. We perform numerous experiments on multiple public datasets using AMAJL and other benchmark methods. The results demonstrate that our method can effectively extract high quality knowledge for ensemble classifier and improve the performance of classification. SN - 1932-6203 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/25966359/Argumentation_based_joint_learning:_a_novel_ensemble_learning_approach_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -