Strategies for improving the modeling and interpretability of Bayesian networks

  • Authors:
  • Ádamo L. de Santana;Carlos R. Francês;Cláudio A. Rocha;Solon V. Carvalho;Nandamudi L. Vijaykumar;Liviane P. Rego;João C. Costa

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory of High Performance Networks Planning, Federal University of Pará, R. Augusto Côrrea, 01, 66075-110 Belém, PA, Brazil;Laboratory of High Performance Networks Planning, Federal University of Pará, R. Augusto Côrrea, 01, 66075-110 Belém, PA, Brazil;University of the Amazon, Av. Alcindo Cacela, 287, 66060-902 Belém, PA, Brazil;Laboratory of Computing and Applied Mathematics, National Institute for Space Research, Av. dos Astronautas 1758, Jd. Granja, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil;Laboratory of Computing and Applied Mathematics, National Institute for Space Research, Av. dos Astronautas 1758, Jd. Granja, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, SP, Brazil;Laboratory of High Performance Networks Planning, Federal University of Pará, R. Augusto Côrrea, 01, 66075-110 Belém, PA, Brazil;Laboratory of High Performance Networks Planning, Federal University of Pará, R. Augusto Côrrea, 01, 66075-110 Belém, PA, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

One of the main factors for the knowledge discovery success is related to the comprehensibility of the patterns discovered by applying data mining techniques. Amongst which we can point out the Bayesian networks as one of the most prominent when considering the easiness of knowledge interpretation achieved. Bayesian networks, however, present limitations and disadvantages regarding their use and applicability. This paper presents an extension for the improvement of Bayesian networks, treating aspects such as performance, as well as interpretability and use of their results; incorporating genetic algorithms in the model, multivariate regression for structure learning and temporal aspects using Markov chains.