Adaptive floating search methods in feature selection

Publication information: Pattem Recwnition Letters (ISSN 0167-8655). For 1999. Volume 20 is scheduled for publication. Subscription prices are available upon request from the Publisher o; from the ~ e ~ i o n a l Sales Office nearest you or from this'journal's website (http:l/ www.elsevier.nl/locate/patrec). Further information is available on this journal and other Elsevier Science products through Elsevier's website: (http://www.elsevier.nl). Subscriptions are accepted on a prepaid basis only and are entered on a calendar year basis. Issues are sent by standard mail (surface within Europe, air delivery outside Europe). Priority rates are available upon request. Claims for missing issues should be made within six months of the date of dispatch. [Note (Latin America): for orders, claims and help desk information, please contact the Regional Sales Office in New York as listed above] USA mailing notice: Pattern Recognition Letters (ISSN 0167-8655) is published monthly by Elsevier Science B. Abstract A new suboptimal search strategy for feature selection is presented. It represents a more sophisticated version of "classical" floating search algorithms (Pudil et al., 1994), attempts to remove some of their potential deficiencies and facilitates finding a solution even closer to the optimal one.