Smoothing methods, extensively used for solving important math- ematical programming problems and applications, are applied here to generate and solve an unconstrained smooth reformulation of the support vector machine ...

An algorithm is proposed which generates a nonlinear kernel-based separating surface that requires as little as 1% of a large dataset for its explicit evaluation. To generate this nonlinear surface, the entire dataset ...

The identi cation of breast cancer patients for whom chemother- apy could prolong survival time is treated here as a data mining prob- lem. This identi cation is achieved by clustering 253 breast cancer patients into ...