Data mining with an ant colony optimization algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation - Tập 6 Số 4 - Trang 321-332 - 2002
R.S. Parpinelli1, H.S. Lopes1, A.A. Freitas2
1Coordenação de Pós-Graduaçãoem Engenharia Elétrica e Informática Industrial, Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Paraná, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil
2Programa de Pós-Graduação em Informática Aplicada Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Paraná, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil

Tóm tắt

The paper proposes an algorithm for data mining called Ant-Miner (ant-colony-based data miner). The goal of Ant-Miner is to extract classification rules from data. The algorithm is inspired by both research on the behavior of real ant colonies and some data mining concepts as well as principles. We compare the performance of Ant-Miner with CN2, a well-known data mining algorithm for classification, in six public domain data sets. The results provide evidence that: 1) Ant-Miner is competitive with CN2 with respect to predictive accuracy, and 2) the rule lists discovered by Ant-Miner are considerably simpler (smaller) than those discovered by CN2.

Từ khóa

#Data mining #Ant colony optimization #Clustering algorithms #Classification algorithms #Accuracy #Machine learning #Statistics #Databases #Humans #Decision making

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