Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=47412#.VMib_izQrzE Author(s) Rodrigo Morgon , Silvio do Lago Pereira Affiliation(s) Department of Information Technology, FATEC-SP/CEETEPS, S?o Paulo, Brazil . Department of Information Technology, FATEC-SP/CEETEPS, S?o Paulo, Brazil . ABSTRACT Concept learning is a kind of classification task that has interesting practical applications in several areas. In this paper, a new evolutionary concept learning algorithm is proposed and a corresponding learning system, called ECL ( Evolutionary Concept Learner ), is implemented. This system is compared to three traditional learning systems: MLP ( Multilayer Perceptron ), ID3 ( Iterative Dichotomiser ) and NB ( Naïve Bayes ). The comparison takes into account target concepts of varying complexities (e.g., with interacting attributes) and different qualities of training sets (e.g., with imbalanced classes and noisy class labe...
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