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In this paper, we experiment with a combination of innovative approaches to rule induction to encourage the production of interesting sets of classification rules. These include multi-objective metaheuristics to induce the rules; measures of rule dissimilarity to encourage the production of dissimilar rules; and rule clustering algorithms to evaluate the results obtained.
Our previous implementation of NSGA-II for rule induction produces a set of cc-optimal rules (coverage-confidence optimal rules). Among the set of rules produced there may be rules that are very similar. We explore the concept of rule similarity and experiment with a number of modifications of the crowding distance to increasing the diversity of the partial classification rules produced by the multi-objective algorithm.
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de la Iglesia, B., Reynolds, A., Rayward-Smith, V.J. (2005). Developments on a Multi-objective Metaheuristic (MOMH) Algorithm for Finding Interesting Sets of Classification Rules. In: Coello Coello, C.A., Hernández Aguirre, A., Zitzler, E. (eds) Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization. EMO 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3410. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31880-4_57
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