Searching extended emerging patterns for supervised classification

For many learning tasks, a high accuracy is not the only desired characteristic of a supervised classifier; A classifier should also be easily comprehensible by humans. Although higher classification accuracies are usually obtained at the expense of classification comprehensibility, Emerging Pattern...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: MILTON GARCÍA BORROTO
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2010
País:México
Institución:Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica
Repositorio:Repositorio Institucional del INAOE
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx:1009/508
Acceso en línea:http://inaoe.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1009/508
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:info:eu-repo/classification/Fenómenos emergentes/Emergent phenomena
info:eu-repo/classification/Inteligencia artificial/Artificial intelligence
info:eu-repo/classification/Aprendizaje por ejemplo/Learning by example
info:eu-repo/classification/Fuzzy reasoning/Fuzzy reasoning
info:eu-repo/classification/Clasificación de patrones/Pattern classification
info:eu-repo/classification/Reconocimiento de patrones/Pattern recognition
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/12
info:eu-repo/classification/cti/1203
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Sumario:For many learning tasks, a high accuracy is not the only desired characteristic of a supervised classifier; A classifier should also be easily comprehensible by humans. Although higher classification accuracies are usually obtained at the expense of classification comprehensibility, Emerging Pattern classifiers are both accurate and easy to understand. The main contribution of this dissertation is the introduction of two new kinds of emerging patterns, which are more expressive than traditional definitions: Extended Crisp Emerging Patterns and Fuzzy Emerging Patterns. The higher expressiveness of the new patterns allows to obtain more accurate classifiers, without sacrificing understandability. Another contribution of this dissertation is a collection of algorithms for mining the new kinds of patterns from a database containing mixed and incomplete data. The classifiers proposed in this dissertation, using the new patterns, attain higher accuracy than traditional emerging pattern classifiers and other comprehensible classifiers, while they are competitive with state-of-the-art non-comprehensible classifiers. The selection of the classifier to be used in a particular problem depends on the type of patterns (crisp or fuzzy) the user wants to obtain, and a tradeoff among accuracy, complexity, and classification speed.