Title
Using Rough Sets with Heuristics for Feature Selection
Abstract
Practical machine learning algorithms are known to degrade in performance when faced with many features that are not necessary for rule discovery. To cope with this problem, many methods for selecting a subset of features with similar-enough behaviors to merit focused analysis have been proposed. In such methods, the filter approach that selects a feature subset using a preprocessing step, and the wrapper approach that selects an optimal feature subset from the space of possible subsets of features using the induction algorithm itself as a part of the evaluation function, are two typical ones. Although the filter approach is a faster one, it has some blindness and the performance of induction is not considered. On the other hand, the optimal feature subsets can be obtained by using the wrapper approach, but it is not easy to use because the complexity of time and space. In this paper, we propose an algorithm of using the rough set methodology with greedy heuristics for feature selection. In our approach, selecting features is similar as the filter approach, but the performance of induction is considered in the evaluation criterion for feature selection. That is, we select the features that damage the performance of induction as little as possible.
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1007/978-3-540-48061-7_22
RSFDGrC
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature selection,rough sets,rough set
Decision table,Feature selection,Pattern recognition,Feature (computer vision),Computer science,Evaluation function,Greedy algorithm,Rough set,Preprocessor,Heuristics,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1711
0302-9743
3-540-66645-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
1.29
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juzhen Dong121417.05
Ning Zhong22907300.63
Setsuo Ohsuga3960222.02