Rule pruning techniques in the ant-miner classification algorithm and its variants: A review

HNK Al-Behadili, KR Ku-Mahamud… - 2018 IEEE Symposium …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rule-based classification is considered an important task of data classification. The ant-
mining rule-based classification algorithm, inspired from the ant colony optimization …

A new sequential covering strategy for inducing classification rules with ant colony algorithms

FEB Otero, AA Freitas… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithms have been successfully applied to discover a list of
classification rules. In general, these algorithms follow a sequential covering strategy, where …

Utilizing multiple pheromones in an ant-based algorithm for continuous-attribute classification rule discovery

KM Salama, AM Abdelbar, FEB Otero, AA Freitas - Applied Soft Computing, 2013 - Elsevier
The cAnt-Miner algorithm is an Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) based technique for
classification rule discovery in problem domains which include continuous attributes. In this …

Multiple pheromone types and other extensions to the Ant-Miner classification rule discovery algorithm

KM Salama, AM Abdelbar, AA Freitas - Swarm Intelligence, 2011 - Springer
Ant-Miner is an ant-based algorithm for the discovery of classification rules. This paper
proposes five extensions to Ant-Miner:(1) we utilize multiple types of pheromone, one for …

Adaptive parameter control strategy for ant-miner classification algorithm

HNK Al-Behadili, R Sagban… - Indonesian Journal of …, 2020 - section.iaesonline.com
Pruning is the popular framework for preventing the dilemma of overfitting noisy data. This
paper presents a new hybrid Ant-Miner classification algorithm and ant colony system …

A rule-based fuzzy ant colony improvement (ACI) approach for automated disease diagnoses

P Bagla, K Kumar - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023 - Springer
India has approximately seven qualified doctors for every 10,000 people, highlighting the
several issues confronting the medical industry, including physician insufficiency, slower …

[PDF][PDF] Ant colony optimization algorithm for rule-based classification: Issues and potential solutions

HNK Al-Behadili, KR Ku-Mahamud, R Sagban - J. Theor. Appl. Inf. Technol, 2018 - jatit.org
Classification rule discovery using ant colony optimization (ACO) imitates the foraging
behavior of real ant colonies. It is considered as one of the successful swarm intelligence …

Using ant programming guided by grammar for building rule-based classifiers

JL Olmo, JR Romero, S Ventura - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The extraction of comprehensible knowledge is one of the major challenges in many
domains. In this paper, an ant programming (AP) framework, which is capable of mining …

Learning Bayesian network classifiers using ant colony optimization

KM Salama, AA Freitas - Swarm Intelligence, 2013 - Springer
Bayesian networks are knowledge representation tools that model the (in) dependency
relationships among variables for probabilistic reasoning. Classification with Bayesian …

Ant colony algorithms for constructing Bayesian multi-net classifiers

KM Salama, AA Freitas - Intelligent Data Analysis, 2015 - content.iospress.com
Abstract Bayesian Multi-nets (BMNs) are a special kind of Bayesian network (BN) classifiers
that consist of several local Bayesian networks, one for each predictable class, to model an …