Ensemble Learning
Paper
Boosting
Nick Littlestone and Manfred K. Warmuth (1994). The Weighted Majority Algorithm. Information and Computation, 108, 212–261.
J. Ross Quinlan (1996). Bagging, Boosting, and C4.5. In In Proceedings of the Thirteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 725-730, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Yoav Freund and Robert E. Schapire (1997). A Decision-Theoretic Generalization of On-Line Learning and an Application to Boosting. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 55(1), 119-139. (short version, another version)
Robert E. Schapire, Yoav Freund, Peter Barlett and Wee Sun Lee (1998). Boosting the Margin: A New Explanation for the Effectiveness of Voting Methods.The Annals of Statistics, 26(5), 1651-1686. (short version)
Robert E. Schapire (1999). A Brief Introduction to Boosting. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, invited speaking, 1401-1406, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bagging
Leo Breiman (1996). Bagging Predictors. Machine Learning, 24(2), 123-140.
Arcing
Leo Breiman (1997). Arcing the Edge. Technical Report 486, Statistics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Leo Breiman (1997). Prediction Games and Arcing Algorithms. Technical Report 504, Statistics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Leo Breiman (1998). Arcing Classifiers. The Annals of Statistics, 26(3), 801-849.