Mining classification rules with Reduced MEPAR-miner Algorithm

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 786-798

  Aydogan, Emel Kizilkaya ^a   Gencer, Cevriye ^b  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Attribute reduction; Classification rules; Data mining; Evolutionary programming; Rough set

Indexed keywords

BINARY TREES; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA MINING; DATA PROCESSING; DATA REDUCTION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; ROUGH SET THEORY;

ATTRIBUTE REDUCTION; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS; MINING STRUCTURES; REDUCED MEPAR MINER ALGORITHMS;

LOGIC PROGRAMMING;

EID: 37349004731     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2007.05.024     Document Type: Article

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