A Comparative Analysis of Data Distribution Methods in an Agent-Based Neural System for Classification Tasks

The NeurAge (Neural agents) system has been proposed as an alternative to transform the centralized decision making process of a multi-classifier system into a distributed, flexible and incremental one. This system has presented good results in some conventional (centralized) classification tasks. Nevertheless, in some classification tasks, relevant features might be distributed over a set of agent. These applications can be classified as distributed classification tasks. In this paper, a comparative investigation of the NeurAge system using some methods for data distribution will be performed. In addition, the performance of the NeurAge system will be compared with some existing multi-classifier systems.