Fuzzy Decision-Tree-Based Analysis of Databases

The 1960s included the earliest discussion on an inductive approach towards the construction of a decision tree for the classification of objects that are described by attributes (Hunt, Marin, & Stone, 1966). It is not until over a decade later that the popularization of the decision tree method was materialized with the introduction of what developed into the Interactive Dichotomizer 3 (Quinlan, 1979, 1986). ID3, as it generally became to be known, involves the repetitive partitioning of objects through the augmentation of attributes down a tree until each subset of objects is associated with the same decision class or no attribute is available for further decomposition. Alternative AbstrAct