Title
Generation and Interpretation of Temporal Decision Rules
Abstract
We present a solution to the problem of understanding a system that produces a sequence of temporally ordered observations. Our solution is based on generating and interpreting a set of temporal decision rules. A temporal decision rule is a decision rule that can be used to predict or retrodict the value of a decision attribute, using condition attributes that are observed at times other than the decision attribute's time of observation. A rule set, consisting of a set of temporal decision rules with the same decision attribute, can be interpreted by our Temporal Investigation Method for Enregistered Record Sequences (TIMERS) to signify an instantaneous, an acausal or a possibly causal relationship between the condition attributes and the decision attribute. We show the effectiveness of our method, by describing a number of experiments with both synthetic and real temporal data.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
temporal data,decision rule
Field
DocType
Volume
Decision rule,Decision tree,Data mining,Partially observable Markov decision process,Computer science,Temporal database,Weighted sum model,Influence diagram,Artificial intelligence,Evidential reasoning approach,Evidential decision theory,Machine learning
Journal
abs/1004.3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.40
9
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kamran Karimi111817.23
Howard J. Hamilton21501145.55