A rule-based classifier with accurate and fast rule term induction for continuous attributes

Almutairi, M., Stahl, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4860-0203 and Bramer, M. (2019) A rule-based classifier with accurate and fast rule term induction for continuous attributes. In: 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 17th to 20th of December 2018, Orlando, Florida, pp. 413-420.

Abstract/Summary

Rule-based classifiers are considered more expressive, human readable and less prone to over-fitting compared with decision trees, especially when there is noise in the data. Furthermore, rule-based classifiers do not suffer from the replicated subtree problem as classifiers induced by top down induction of decision trees (also known as `Divide and Conquer'). This research explores some recent developments of a family of rule-based classifiers, the Prism family and more particular G-Prism-FB and G-Prism-DB algorithms, in terms of local discretisation methods used to induce rule terms for continuous data. The paper then proposes a new algorithm of the Prism family based on a combination of Gauss Probability Density Distribution (GPDD), InterQuartile Range (IQR) and data transformation methods. This new rule-based algorithm, termed G-Rules-IQR, is evaluated empirically and outperforms other members of the Prism family in execution time, accuracy and tentative accuracy.

Item Type	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/80938
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Computer Science
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