This paper combines computational intelligence tools: neural network, fuzzylogic, and genetic algorithm to develop a data mining architecture (NFGDM), which discovers patternsand represents them in understandable form...This paper combines computational intelligence tools: neural network, fuzzylogic, and genetic algorithm to develop a data mining architecture (NFGDM), which discovers patternsand represents them in understandable forms. In the NFGDM, input data arepreprocesscd byfuzzification, the preprocessed data of input variables arc then used to train a radial basisprobabilistic neural network to classify the dataset according to the classes considered, A ruleextraction technique is then applied in order to extract explicit knowledge from the trained neuralnetworks and represent it m the form of fuzzy if-then rules. In the final stage, genetic algorithmis used as a rule-pruning module to eliminate those weak rules that are still in the rule bases.Comparison with some known neural network classifier, the architecture has fast learning speed, andit is characterized by the incorporation of the possibility information into the consequents ofclassification rules in human understandable forms. The experiments show that the NFGDM is moreefficient and more robust than traditional decision tree method.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Research Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (20030487032)
文摘This paper combines computational intelligence tools: neural network, fuzzylogic, and genetic algorithm to develop a data mining architecture (NFGDM), which discovers patternsand represents them in understandable forms. In the NFGDM, input data arepreprocesscd byfuzzification, the preprocessed data of input variables arc then used to train a radial basisprobabilistic neural network to classify the dataset according to the classes considered, A ruleextraction technique is then applied in order to extract explicit knowledge from the trained neuralnetworks and represent it m the form of fuzzy if-then rules. In the final stage, genetic algorithmis used as a rule-pruning module to eliminate those weak rules that are still in the rule bases.Comparison with some known neural network classifier, the architecture has fast learning speed, andit is characterized by the incorporation of the possibility information into the consequents ofclassification rules in human understandable forms. The experiments show that the NFGDM is moreefficient and more robust than traditional decision tree method.
