Hierarchical decision rules mining

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2081-2091

  Feng, Qinrong ^a,b,c   Miao, Duoqian ^b,c   Cheng, Yi ^b,c  

^a SHANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Certain rules; Concept hierarchy; Hierarchical decision rules mining; Multidimensional data model; Separate and conquer strategy; Uncertain rules

Indexed keywords

CERTAIN RULES; CONCEPT HIERARCHY; HIERARCHICAL DECISION RULES MINING; MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA MODEL; SEPARATE-AND-CONQUER STRATEGY; UNCERTAIN RULES;

MINING; MODELS; ROUGH SET THEORY; SEPARATION;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 70449534752     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.06.065     Document Type: Article

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