An optimization-based approach for data classification

  • Authors:
  • St. Busygin;O. A. Prokopyev;P. M. Pardalos

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Applied Optimization, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida,;Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh,;Center for Applied Optimization, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida,

  • Venue:
  • Optimization Methods & Software - Systems Analysis, Optimization and Data Mining in Biomedicine
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this paper we discuss an optimization-based approach to handling data classification problems. The main idea of the proposed method is to reformulate the classification problem as a mathematical programming problem, whose solution implies relevant feature selection and forms the classes of data. Encouraging computational results on two DNA microarray data mining problems are reported.