Automatic Design of Decision-Tree Induction Algorithms

• Main Authors: Barros, Rodrigo C. (Author), de Carvalho, André C.P.L.F (Author), Freitas, Alex A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data mining.; Pattern recognition.; Computer Science.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Pattern Recognition.

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 �...

Table of Contents:

• 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.