Interpretable knowledge extraction from emergency call data based on fuzzy unsupervised decision tree

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-87

  Barrientos, Francisco ^a   Sainz, Gregorio ^a,b  

^a Centro de Automatizacion Robotica y Tecnologias de La Informacion y de La Fabricacion   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Emergency call center; Fuzzy clustering; Fuzzy rules; Interpretability; Unsupervised decision trees

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION TREES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EXTRACTION; FUZZY CLUSTERING; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY RULES; LINGUISTICS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CUSTOMER SERVICES; EMERGENCY CALLS; INTERPRETABILITY; KNOWLEDGE EXTRACTION; RESOURCE PLANNING; SECURITY SERVICES; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES; UNSUPERVISED DECISION TREE;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 80052392939     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2011.01.014     Document Type: Article

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