Discovering unordered rule sets for mixed variables using an Ant-Miner algorithm

Data Science Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages 76-87

  Nalini, C ^a   Balasubramanie, P ^a  

^a KONGU ENGINEERING COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Classification rules; Data mining

Indexed keywords

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); HEURISTIC METHODS; MINERS; OPTIMIZATION; SWARM INTELLIGENCE;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); CLASSIFICATION RULES; CONTINUOUS ATTRIBUTE; DATA MINING ALGORITHM; DISCRETIZATION PROCESS; HEURISTIC TECHNIQUES; RULE INDUCTION ALGORITHMS; SELF ORGANIZED SYSTEMS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 45949107186     PISSN: 16831470     EISSN: 16831470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2481/dsj.7.76     Document Type: Article

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