Induction of multiple fuzzy decision trees based on rough set technique

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 3188-3202

  Wang, Xi Zhao ^a   Zhai, Jun Hai ^a   Lu, Shu Xia ^a  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fusion; Fuzzy attribute reduct; Fuzzy decision tree induction; Integral; Learning; Rough sets

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONTROL THEORY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DECISION TREES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FUSION REACTIONS; FUZZY CONTROL; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LEAD; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROUGH SET THEORY; SET THEORY; TRANSIENTS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

APPLIED (CO); ATTRIBUTE REDUCT; DECISION RULES; FEATURE SETS; FUSION SCHEME; FUZZY DECISION TREE (FDT); FUZZY ID3; FUZZY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; FUZZY INTEGRALS; FUZZY ROUGH SET THEORY; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); LEARNING PROBLEMS; MACHINE-LEARNING; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; REAL DATA; REDUCTS; ROUGH SETS; SOFT COMPUTING (SC); TO MANY; TREE INDUCTION;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 45649085354     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2008.03.021     Document Type: Article

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