Classification rule discovery with DE/QDE algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Haijun Su;Yupu Yang;Liang Zhao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, PR China;Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, PR China;Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization for Chemical Processes, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, PR China

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The quantum-inspired differential evolution algorithm (QDE) is a new optimization algorithm in the binary-valued space. The paper proposes the DE/QDE algorithm for the discovery of classification rules. DE/QDE combines the characteristics of the conventional DE algorithm and the QDE algorithm. Based on some strategies of DE and QDE, DE/QDE can directly cope with the continuous, nominal attributes without discretizing the continuous attributes in the preprocessing step. DE/QDE also has specific weight mutation for managing the weight value of the individual encoding. Then DE/QDE is compared with Ant-Miner and CN2 on six problems from the UCI repository datasets. The results indicate that DE/QDE is competitive with Ant-Miner and CN2 in term of the predictive accuracy.