An evolutionary system for automatic explicit rule extraction

Proceedings of the 2000 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2000

Volumn 1, Issue , 2000, Pages 450-457

  De Falco, I ^a   Iazzetta, A ^a   Tarantino, E ^a   Cioppa, A Della ^b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CLASSIFICATION RULES; EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEM; HEURISTIC SEARCH METHODS; LARGE ORGANIZATIONS; RULE EXTRACTION; STANDARD QUERIES; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; USEFUL PATTERNS;

EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS; RULE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0033670640     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2000.870331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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