Similarity classifier with ordered weighted averaging operators

  • Authors:
  • Pasi Luukka;Onesfole Kurama

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O. Box 20, FIN-53851 Lappeenranta, Finland;Laboratory of Applied Mathematics, Lappeenranta University of Technology, P.O. Box 20, FIN-53851 Lappeenranta, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this article we extend the similarity classifier to cover also ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators. Earlier, similarity classifier was mainly used with generalized mean operator, but in this article we extend this aggregation process to cover more general OWA operators. With OWA operators we concentrate on linguistic quantifier guided aggregation where several different quantifiers are studied and on how they best suite for the similarity classifier. Our proposed method is applied to real world medical data sets which are new thyroid, hypothyroid, lymphography and hepatitis data sets. Results are very promising and show improvement compared to the earlier used generalized mean operator. In this article we will show that by using OWA operators instead of generalized mean, we can improve classification accuracy with chosen data sets.