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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299226903321

Autore

Barros Rodrigo C

Titolo

Automatic Design of Decision-Tree Induction Algorithms / / by Rodrigo C. Barros, André C.P.L.F de Carvalho, Alex A. Freitas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-14231-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, , 2191-5768

Disciplina

004

006.312

006.4

Soggetti

Data mining

Pattern recognition

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Pattern Recognition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Decision-Tree Induction -- Evolutionary Algorithms and Hyper-Heuristics -- HEAD-DT: Automatic Design of Decision-Tree Algorithms -- HEAD-DT: Experimental Analysis -- HEAD-DT: Fitness Function Analysis -- Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

Presents a detailed study of the major design components that constitute a top-down decision-tree induction algorithm, including aspects such as split criteria, stopping criteria, pruning and the approaches for dealing with missing values. Whereas the strategy still employed nowadays is to use a 'generic' decision-tree induction algorithm regardless of the data, the authors argue on the benefits that a bias-fitting strategy could bring to decision-tree induction, in which the ultimate goal is the automatic generation of a decision-tree induction algorithm tailored to the application domain of interest. For such, they discuss how one can effectively discover the most suitable set of components of decision-tree induction algorithms to deal with a wide variety of applications through the paradigm of evolutionary computation, following the emergence of a novel field called hyper-



heuristics. "Automatic Design of Decision-Tree Induction Algorithms" would be highly useful for machine learning and evolutionary computation students and researchers alike.