Designing Storage Efficient Decision Trees

  • Authors:
  • O. J. Murphy;R. L. McCraw

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

The problem of designing storage-efficient decision trees from decision tables is examined. It is shown that for most cases, the construction of the storage optimal decision tree is an NP-complete problem, and therefore a heuristic approach to the problem is necessary. A systematic procedure analogous to the information-theoretic heuristic is developed. The algorithm has low computational complexity and performs well experimentally.