基于RPCL的模糊关联规则挖掘

在模糊关联规则的挖掘过程中,很难预先知道每个属性合适的模糊集。针对该问题,提出基于次胜者受罚竞争学习的模糊关联规则挖掘算法,无需先验知识,即可根据每个属性的性质找出对应的模糊集,并确定模糊集的数目。实验结果表明,与同类算法相比,该算法可以挖掘出更多有趣的关联规则。     

运用模糊集挖掘数量属性数据的关联规则

绝大多数关联规则的挖掘方法基于布尔属性数据，但在现实应用中会经常需要对数量属性的数据进行关联挖掘。该文就提出一种算法，在经典Apriori后选集算法的基础上引入了模糊逻辑集合的概念，将数据集中的数量属性按照模糊集合定义进行划分从而将原始事务数据转化成基于模糊集的数据，然后再运用Apriori算法发现潜在的关联规则。     

应用模糊本体的广义关联规则挖掘算法

模糊集与本体结合的数据挖掘方法得到了广泛的关注。为了丰富数据挖掘效果以及数据挖掘得出的规则的完整性,本文在模糊本体的挖掘算法基础上,提出了模糊本体中叶子结点的相似度定义以及不同语义层次所含项目集的数目定义多重最小支持度,提出了基于模糊本体的广义关联规则算法。对比实验证明,基于模糊本体的广义关联规则算法的挖掘具有更强的可读性,获得的语义关联规则更加丰富,促进了在广义关联规则挖掘过程中使概念泛化更加合理,提高了算法效率。     

基于协同进化算法的高维模糊分类系统的设计

基于协同进化算法，提出一种高维模糊分类系统的设计方法．首先定义系统的精确性指标，给出解释性的必要条件，利用聚类算法辨识初始模型．相互协作的3类种群分别代表系统的特征变量、规则前件和模型隶属函数的参数，适应度函数采用3类种群合作计算的策略，在算法运行中利用基于相似性的模型简化技术约简模糊系统，最后利用该方法对Wine问题进行研究．仿真结果表明该方法能够对高维分类问题的特征变量进行选择，同时利用较少规则和模糊集合数达到较高的识别率．     

关联规则挖掘算法在分类中的应用研究

提出了一个基于关联规则挖掘算法的医疗数据分类方法。介绍了关联规则的理论基础、关联规则挖掘算法及其在医疗数据挖掘中的应用方法,并利用介绍的算法对乳腺癌数据进行挖掘。获得了分类的实验结果,该模型系统达到了较高的分类准确率,证明了数据挖掘在辅助医疗诊断中有着广泛的应用前景。     

关系数据库中模糊规则的快速挖掘算法

关联规则和时序规则是数据挖掘的任务之一.在以往的算法中,规则通常用确定的数值或概念来表示,往往不具有实际意义,而且不容易被用户理解.研究了从大型关系数据库中挖掘模糊关联规则和模糊时序规则的问题.基于模糊集合的理论,提出了两个模糊关联规则的挖掘算法,然后把它们分别扩展为模糊时序规则的挖掘算法.用模糊概念表示的规则更符合人的思维和表达习惯,增强了规则的可理解性.     

挖掘集合值关系数据库的模糊关联规则

为了挖掘集合值关系数据库的模糊关联规则，应用竞争聚集算法将记录在数量型属性上的取值划分成若干个模糊集，接着给出集合值关系数据库上数量型属的模糊关联规则的挖掘算法，此算法能将数量型属性模糊关联规则的挖掘问题转化为布尔属性关联规则的挖掘问题。最后通过一个实例说明挖掘算法的合理性。     

区间值关系数据库上模糊关联规则的预测方法

讨论了区间值关系数据库上模糊关联规则的挖掘算法与预测方法。采用一种比RFCM算法省时的FCMdd算法将记录在属性的取值划分成若干个模糊集,并提出区间值关系数据库上模糊关联规则的挖掘算法。仿真实例说明挖掘算法能够通过挖掘有意义的模糊关联规则来发现区间值关系数据库中蕴涵的关联性。区间值关系数据库上模糊关联规则的预测方法改进了标准可加性模型,并通过遗传算法调整模糊关联规则中三角模糊数的参数来提高预测的精度。     

基于关联规则挖掘的中文文本自动分类

随着电子出版物和互联网文档的飞速增加，自动文档分类工作正变得日渐重要．提出一种基于关联规则的中文文本自动分类方法．该算法将文档视作事务．关键词视作项，利用改进的关联规则挖掘算法挖掘项和类剐间的相关关系．挖掘出的规则形成分类器，可用于类标号未知的文档的区分．实验证明，该算法能较快地获得可理解的规则并且具有较好的召回率和准确率．     

模糊关联规则挖掘在电力负荷预测中的应用

提出了一种基于模糊关联规则挖掘的电力负荷预测新方法，采用模糊C-均值算法对连续型属性域上的历史数据进行分类并模糊化，应用文中提出的模糊关联规则挖掘算法挖掘出电力负荷量与其相关环境变量间潜在的有效模糊关联规则。利用这些规则进行匹配预测，得到电力负荷量模糊化的预测结果；最后将其反模糊化，得出预测值。给出了实验仿真结果，表明了该方法的有效性。     

Mining fuzzy association rules for classification problems

The effective development of data mining techniques for the discovery of knowledge from training samples for classification problems in industrial engineering is necessary in applications, such as group technology. This paper proposes a learning algorithm, which can be viewed as a knowledge acquisition tool, to effectively discover fuzzy association rules for classification problems. The consequence part of each rule is one class label. The proposed learning algorithm consists of two phases: one to generate large fuzzy grids from training samples by fuzzy partitioning in each attribute, and the other to generate fuzzy association rules for classification problems by large fuzzy grids. The proposed learning algorithm is implemented by scanning training samples stored in a database only once and applying a sequence of Boolean operations to generate fuzzy grids and fuzzy rules; therefore, it can be easily extended to discover other types of fuzzy association rules. The simulation results from the iris data demonstrate that the proposed learning algorithm can effectively derive fuzzy association rules for classification problems.     

Designing of classifiers based on immune principles and fuzzy rules

This paper proposed an algorithm to design a fuzzy classification system based on immune principles. The proposed algorithm evolves a population of antibodies based on the clonal selection and hypermutation principles. The membership function parameters and the fuzzy rule set including the number of rules inside it are evolved at the same time. Each antibody (candidate solution) corresponds to a fuzzy classification rule set. We compared our algorithm with other classification schemes on some benchmark datasets. The results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed immune algorithm.     

hGA: Hybrid genetic algorithm in fuzzy rule-based classification systems for high-dimensional problems

The aim of this work is to propose a hybrid heuristic approach (called hGA) based on genetic algorithm (GA) and integer-programming formulation (IPF) to solve high dimensional classification problems in linguistic fuzzy rule-based classification systems. In this algorithm, each chromosome represents a rule for specified class, GA is used for producing several rules for each class, and finally IPF is used for selection of rules from a pool of rules, which are obtained by GA. The proposed algorithm is experimentally evaluated by the use of non-parametric statistical tests on seventeen classification benchmark data sets. Results of the comparative study show that hGA is able to discover accurate and concise classification rules.     

基于免疫原理和模糊规则的分类器设计

提出一种基于免疫原理的模糊分类系统的设计方法．该算法基于生物免疫系统中的克隆选择和超变异原理，通过抗体种群的演化来优化模糊分类规则集合，可以同时确定隶属度函数形状、规则集合以及规则的数目．针对典型数据集的仿真实验表明了本文方法的有效性．     

A new method for constructing membership functions and fuzzy rulesfrom training examples

To extract knowledge from a set of numerical data and build up a rule-based system is an important research topic in knowledge acquisition and expert systems. In recent years, many fuzzy systems that automatically generate fuzzy rules from numerical data have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a new fuzzy learning algorithm based on the alpha-cuts of equivalence relations and the alpha-cuts of fuzzy sets to construct the membership functions of the input variables and the output variables of fuzzy rules and to induce the fuzzy rules from the numerical training data set. Based on the proposed fuzzy learning algorithm, we also implemented a program on a Pentium PC using the MATLAB development tool to deal with the Iris data classification problem. The experimental results show that the proposed fuzzy learning algorithm has a higher average classification ratio and can generate fewer rules than the existing algorithm.     

Fuzzy clustering-based discretization for gene expression classification

This paper presents a novel classification approach that integrates fuzzy class association rules and support vector machines. A fuzzy discretization technique based on fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm is employed to transform the training set, particularly quantitative attributes, to a format appropriate for association rule mining. A hill-climbing procedure is adapted for automatic thresholds adjustment and fuzzy class association rules are mined accordingly. The compatibility between the generated rules and fuzzy patterns is considered to construct a set of feature vectors, which are used to generate a classifier. The reported test results show that compatibility rule-based feature vectors present a highly- qualified source of discrimination knowledge that can substantially impact the prediction power of the final classifier. In order to evaluate the applicability of the proposed method to a variety of domains, it is also utilized for the popular task of gene expression classification. Further, we show how this method provide biologists with an accurate and more understandable classifier model compared to other machine learning techniques.     

基于多最小支持度的多层模糊关联规则挖掘

为了在事务数据库中发现关联规则,在现实挖掘应用中,经常采用不同的标准去判断不同项目的重要性,管理项目之间的分类关系和处理定量数据集这3个方法去处理问题,因此提出一个在定量事务数据库中采用多最小支持度,在项目集中获取隐含知识的多层模糊关联规则挖掘算法。该挖掘算法使用两种支持度约束和至上而下逐步细化的方法推导出频繁项集,同时可以发现交叉层次的模糊关联规则。通过实例证明了该挖掘算法在多最小支持度约束下推导出的多层模糊关联规则是易于理解和有意义的,具有很好的效率和伸缩性。     

Fuzzy DIFACONN-miner: A novel approach for fuzzy rule extraction from neural networks

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are mathematical models inspired from the biological nervous system. They have the ability of predicting, learning from experiences and generalizing from previous examples. An important drawback of ANNs is their very limited explanation capability, mainly due to the fact that knowledge embedded within ANNs is distributed over the activations and the connection weights. Therefore, one of the main challenges in the recent decades is to extract classification rules from ANNs. This paper presents a novel approach to extract fuzzy classification rules (FCR) from ANNs because of the fact that fuzzy rules are more interpretable and cope better with pervasive uncertainty and vagueness with respect to crisp rules. A soft computing based algorithm is developed to generate fuzzy rules based on a data mining tool (DIFACONN-miner), which was recently developed by the authors. Fuzzy DIFACONN-miner algorithm can extract fuzzy classification rules from datasets containing both categorical and continuous attributes. Experimental research on the benchmark datasets and comparisons with other fuzzy rule based classification (FRBC) algorithms has shown that the proposed algorithm yields high classification accuracies and comprehensible rule sets.     

A parsimony fuzzy rule-based classifier using axiomatic fuzzy set theory and support vector machines

This paper proposes a classification method that is based on easily interpretable fuzzy rules and fully capitalizes on the two key technologies, namely pruning the outliers in the training data by SVMs (support vector machines), i.e., eliminating the influence of outliers on the learning process; finding a fuzzy set with sound linguistic interpretation to describe each class based on AFS (axiomatic fuzzy set) theory. Compared with other fuzzy rule-based methods, the proposed models are usually more compact and easily understandable for the users since each class is described by much fewer rules. The proposed method also comes with two other advantages, namely, each rule obtained from the proposed algorithm is simply a conjunction of some linguistic terms, there are no parameters that are required to be tuned. The proposed classification method is compared with the previously published fuzzy rule-based classifiers by testing them on 16 UCI data sets. The results show that the fuzzy rule-based classifier presented in this paper, offers a compact, understandable and accurate classification scheme. A balance is achieved between the interpretability and the accuracy.     

Neural networks that learn from fuzzy if-then rules

An architecture for neural networks that can handle fuzzy input vectors is proposed, and learning algorithms that utilize fuzzy if-then rules as well as numerical data in neural network learning for classification problems and for fuzzy control problems are derived. The learning algorithms can be viewed as an extension of the backpropagation algorithm to the case of fuzzy input vectors and fuzzy target outputs. Using the proposed methods, linguistic knowledge from human experts represented by fuzzy if-then rules and numerical data from measuring instruments can be integrated into a single information processing system (classification system or fuzzy control system). It is shown that the scheme works well for simple examples