Title
A fuzzy discrete particle swarm optimization classifier for rule classification
Abstract
The need to deduce interesting and valuable information from large, complex, information-rich data sets is common to many research fields. Rule discovery or rule mining uses a set of IF-THEN rules to classify a class or category in a comprehensible way. Besides the classical approaches, many rule mining approaches use biologically-inspired algorithms such as evolutionary algorithms and swarm intelligence approaches. In this paper, a Particle Swarm Optimization based discrete classification implementation with a local search strategy (DPSO-LS) was devised and applied to discrete data. In addition, a fuzzy DPSO-LS (FDPSO-LS) classifier is proposed for both discrete and continuous data in order to manage imprecision and uncertainty. Experimental results reveal that DPSO-LS and FDPSO-LS outperform other classification methods in most cases based on rule size, True Positive Rate (TPR), False Positive Rate (FPR), and precision, showing slightly improved results for FDPSO-LS.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.3233/HIS-140190
International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
fuzzy rule-based classification system,local strategy,particle swarm optimization,pittsburgh approach
False positive rate,Data mining,Evolutionary algorithm,Computer science,Swarm intelligence,Artificial intelligence,Classifier (linguistics),Particle swarm optimization,Pattern recognition,Fuzzy logic,Multi-swarm optimization,Local search (optimization),Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
11
3
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
23
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Min Chen110.35
Simone A Ludwig21309179.41