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Demand-Driven Associative Classification

  • First book only devoted to associative classification, which is an emerging classification strategy
  • The work puts associative classification algorithms into the existing machine learning theory
  • The work lists several successful application scenarios for associative classification

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science (BRIEFSCOMPUTER)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Introduction and Preliminaries

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.
      Pages 3-8
    3. The Classification Problem

      • Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.
      Pages 9-18
  3. Associative Classification

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
    2. Associative Classification

      • Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.
      Pages 21-37
    3. Demand-Driven Associative Classification

      • Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.
      Pages 39-49
  4. Extensions to Associative Classification

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51
    2. Multi-Label Associative Classification

      • Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.
      Pages 53-59
    3. Competence–Conscious Associative Classification

      • Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.
      Pages 61-73
    4. Calibrated Associative Classification

      • Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.
      Pages 75-86
    5. Self-Training Associative Classification

      • Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.
      Pages 87-95
    6. Ordinal Regression and Ranking

      • Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.
      Pages 97-104
  5. Conclusions and Future Work

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
    2. Conclusions

      • Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.
      Pages 107-110
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 111-112

About this book

The ultimate goal of machines is to help humans to solve problems.
Such problems range between two extremes: structured problems for which the solution is totally defined (and thus are easily programmed by humans), and random problems for which the solution is completely undefined (and thus cannot be programmed). Problems in the vast middle ground have solutions that cannot be well defined and are, thus, inherently hard to program. Machine Learning is the way to handle this vast middle ground, so that many tedious and difficult hand-coding tasks would be replaced by automatic learning methods. There are several machine learning tasks, and this work is focused on a major one, which is known as classification. Some classification problems are hard to solve, but we show that they can be decomposed into much simpler sub-problems. We also show that independently solving these sub-problems by taking into account their particular demands, often leads to improved classification performance.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Demand-Driven Associative Classification

  • Authors: Adriano Veloso, Wagner Meira Jr.

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-525-5

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-85729-524-8Published: 19 May 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-85729-525-5Published: 18 May 2011

  • Series ISSN: 2191-5768

  • Series E-ISSN: 2191-5776

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 112

  • Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Probability and Statistics in Computer Science

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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