An evolutionary approach for automatically extracting intelligible classification rules

Authors:
I. De Falco;A. Della Cioppa;A. Iazzetta;E. Tarantino
Affiliations:
National Research Council, ICAR, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy;University of Salerno, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131, Fisciano (SA), Italy;National Research Council of Italy, IM, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy;National Research Council, ICAR, Via P. Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy
Venue:
Knowledge and Information Systems
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The process of automatically extracting novel, useful and ultimately comprehensible information from large databases, known as data mining, has become of great importance due to the ever-increasing amounts of data collected by large organizations. In particular, the emphasis is devoted to heuristic search methods able to discover patterns that are hard or impossible to detect using standard query mechanisms and classical statistical techniques. In this paper an evolutionary system capable of extracting explicit classification rules is presented. Special interest is dedicated to find easily interpretable rules that may be used to make crucial decisions. A comparison with the findings achieved by other methods on a real problem, the breast cancer diagnosis, is performed.