Genetic learner: Discretization and fuzzification of numerical attributes

Intelligent Data Analysis

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 445-460

  Bruha, Ivan ^a   Kralik, Pavel ^b   Berka, Petr ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

data mining; discretization; fuzzification; genetic algorithms; inductive learning; knowledge discovery in databases; numerical attributes

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA MINING; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; MACHINE LEARNING;

DISCRETIZATIONS; FUZZIFICATIONS; INDUCTIVE LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY IN DATABASE; NUMERICAL ATTRIBUTES;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 38849184611     PISSN: 1088467X     EISSN: 15714128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ida-2000-4506     Document Type: Article

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