A fuzzy approach to partitioning continuous attributes for classification

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 715-719

  Au, Wai Ho ^a,b   Chan, Keith C C ^a,c   Wong, Andrew K C ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Classification; Data mining; Discretization; Fuzzy partition; Fuzzy sets; Membership functions

Indexed keywords

DISCRETIZATION; FRACTIONAL PROGRAMMING; FUZZY PARTITION; INTERDEPENDENCE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 33645692386     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2006.70     Document Type: Article

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