Feature-Weighted CBR with neural network for symbolic features

  • Authors:
  • Sang Chan Park;Jun Woo Kim;Kwang Hyuk Im

  • Affiliations:
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Graduate School of Culture Technology;Department of Industrial Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea;Department of Industrial Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, Korea

  • Venue:
  • ICIC'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Intelligent Computing - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Case-based reasoning (CBR) is frequently applied to data mining with various objectives. Unfortunately, it suffers from the feature weighting problem. In this framework, similar case retrieval plays an important role, and the k-nearest neighbor (k-nn) method or its variants are widely used as the retrieval mechanism. However, the most important assumption of k-nn is that all of the features presented are equally important, which is not true in many practical applications. Many variants of k-nn have been proposed to assign higher weights to the more relevant features for case retrieval. Though many feature-weighted variants of k-nn have been reported to improve its retrieval accuracy on some tasks, few have been used in conjunction with the neural network learning. We propose CANSY, a feature-weighted CBR with neural network for symbolic features.