Incremental reduced error pruning is a technique that has been extensively used for efficient induction of ordered rule sets (decision lists). Several criteria have been developed regarding how to prune rules and whether or not to exclude generated rules. A version of incremental reduced error pruning for unordered rule sets is presented, and the appropriateness of previously proposed criteria ...

Association rule discovery and other exploratory rule discovery techniques explore large search spaces of potential rules to find those that appear interesting by some user-selected criterion of interestingness. Due to the large number of rules considered, they suffer from an extreme risk of type-1 error, finding rules that appear to satisfy the interestingness criteria on the sample data only ...

In this chapter, we discuss the application of evolutionary multiobjective optimization (EMO) to association rule mining. Especially, we focus our attention on classification rule mining in a continuous feature space where the antecedent and consequent parts of each rule are an interval vector and a class label, respectively. First we explain evolutionary multiobjective classification rule mini...

Classifiers like ANN & SVM are always preferred over other classification model like decision tree due to higher accuracy but lacking explainability and comprehensibility. Rule extraction techniques bridges gap between accuracy and comprehensibility. To evaluate and compare different rule extraction techniques, we require measures for evaluation and categorization. Taxonomy helps us to select a...

This paper shows how a small number of fuzzy rules can be selected for designing interpretable fuzzy rule-based classification systems. Our approach consists of two phases: candidate rule generation by data mining criteria and rule selection by genetic algorithms. First a large number of candidate rules are generated and prescreened using two rule evaluation criteria in data mining. Next a smal...

We aimed to determine semiquantitative evaluation criteria for Crohn-like lymphoid reaction (CLR). We reviewed 1,032 patients with colorectal cancer and evaluated CLR by counting all peritumoral lymphoid aggregates (LAs) and by measuring the maximum diameter of the largest LA. The maximum diameter of the largest LA, rather than the number, had a significant impact on survival. Active CLR determ...

Organizational performance is a complex issue given that performance is a multifaceted phenomenon whose components may have distinct managerial priorities and may even be mutually inconsistent. Recently, the balanced scorecard approach (BSC), as an effective multi-criteria evaluation concept received much attention in organizational performance measurement. Although the BSC conceptual framework...