Multiple Classifier Systems

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS 2004, held in Cagliari, Italy in June 2004.The 35 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on bagging and boosting, combination methods, design methods, performance analysis, and applications.