Data-driven generation of compact, accurate, and linguistically sound fuzzy classifiers based on a decision-tree initialization

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-21

  Abonyi, Janos ^a   Roubos, Johannes A ^b   Szeifert, Ferenc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Classification; Decision tree; Fuzzy classifier; Genetic algorithm; Model reduction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

FUZZY CLASSIFIERS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 0036435523     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0888-613X(02)00076-2     Document Type: Article

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